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Debian DSA-1569-2 : cacti - insufficient input sanitising

high Nessus Plugin ID 32143

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

It was discovered that Cacti, a systems and services monitoring frontend, performed insufficient input sanitising, leading to cross site scripting and SQL injection being possible.

Solution

Upgrade the cacti package.

For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 0.8.6i-3.4.

See Also

https://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1569

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 32143

File Name: debian_DSA-1569.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/9/2008

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:cacti, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:4.0

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

Patch Publication Date: 5/5/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-0783, CVE-2008-0785

CWE: 79, 89

DSA: 1569