GLSA 200408-21: Cacti: SQL injection vulnerability

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Severity:	normal
Title:	Cacti: SQL injection vulnerability
Date:	08/23/2004
Bugs:	#60630
ID:	200408-21

Synopsis

With special configurations of Cacti it is possible to change passwords via a SQL injection attack.

Background

Cacti is a complete web-based front end to rrdtool.

Affected packages

Package	Vulnerable	Unaffected	Architecture(s)
net-analyzer/cacti	<= 0.8.5a	>= 0.8.5a-r1	All supported architectures

Description

Cacti is vulnerable to a SQL injection attack where an attacker may inject SQL into the Username field.

Impact

An attacker could compromise the Cacti service and potentially execute programs with the permissions of the user running Cacti. Only systems with php_flag magic_quotes_gpc set to Off are vulnerable. By default, Gentoo Linux installs PHP with this option set to On.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time. All users are encouraged to upgrade to the latest available version of Cacti.

Resolution

All users should upgrade to the latest available version of Cacti, as follows:

    # emerge sync
    
    # emerge -pv ">=net-analyzer/cacti-0.8.5a-r1"
    # emerge ">=net-analyzer/cacti-0.8.5a-r1"

References

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200408-21.xml

Concerns?

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.