GLSA 200506-20: Cacti: Several vulnerabilities

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Severity:	high
Title:	Cacti: Several vulnerabilities
Date:	06/22/2005
Bugs:	#96243, #97475
ID:	200506-20

Synopsis

Cacti is vulnerable to several SQL injection, authentication bypass and file inclusion vulnerabilities.

Background

Cacti is a complete web-based frontend to rrdtool.

Affected packages

Package	Vulnerable	Unaffected	Architecture(s)
net-analyzer/cacti	< 0.8.6f	>= 0.8.6f	All supported architectures

Description

Cacti fails to properly sanitize input which can lead to SQL injection, authentication bypass as well as PHP file inclusion.

Impact

An attacker could potentially exploit the file inclusion to execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the web server. An attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to bypass authentication or inject SQL queries to gain information from the database. Only systems with register_globals set to "On" are affected by the file inclusion and authentication bypass vulnerabilities. Gentoo Linux ships with register_globals set to "Off" by default.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Cacti users should upgrade to the latest version:

    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-analyzer/cacti-0.8.6f"

Note: Users with the vhosts USE flag set should manually use webapp-config to finalize the update.

References

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200506-20.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.