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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS : Cacti vulnerabilities (USN-6969-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 206024

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6969-1 advisory.

 It was discovered that Cacti did not properly apply checks to the Package Import feature. An attacker could possibly use this issue to perform arbitrary code execution. This issue only affected Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2024-25641)

 It was discovered that Cacti did not properly sanitize values when using javascript based API. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to inject arbitrary javascript code resulting into cross-site scripting vulnerability. This issue only affected Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. (CVE-2024-29894)

 It was discovered that Cacti did not properly sanitize values when managing data queries. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to inject arbitrary javascript code resulting into cross-site scripting vulnerability. (CVE-2024-31443)

 It was discovered that Cacti did not properly sanitize values when reading tree rules with Automation API.
 A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to inject arbitrary javascript code resulting into cross- site scripting vulnerability. (CVE-2024-31444)

 It was discovered that Cacti did not properly sanitize get_request_var('filter') values in the api_automation.php file. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform SQL injection attacks. This issue only affected Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2024-31445)

 It was discovered that Cacti did not properly sanitize data stored in form_save() function in the graph_template_inputs.php file. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform SQL injection attacks. (CVE-2024-31458)

 It was discovered that Cacti did not properly validate the file urls from the lib/plugin.php file. An attacker could possibly use this issue to perform arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2024-31459)

 It was discovered that Cacti did not properly validate the data stored in the automation_tree_rules.php.
 A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform SQL injection attacks. This issue only affected Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2024-31460)

 It was discovered that Cacti did not properly verify the user password. An attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass authentication mechanism. This issue only affected Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2024-34360)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected cacti package.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6969-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 206024

File Name: ubuntu_USN-6969-1.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/21/2024

Updated: 8/22/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.4

Temporal Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-34340

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 8.4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:24.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:cacti

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/20/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/13/2024

Exploitable With

Metasploit (Cacti Import Packages RCE)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-25641, CVE-2024-29894, CVE-2024-31443, CVE-2024-31444, CVE-2024-31445, CVE-2024-31458, CVE-2024-31459, CVE-2024-31460, CVE-2024-34340

USN: 6969-1