Cacti up to 1.2.28 line delimiter

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A vulnerability was found in Cacti up to 1.2.28 and classified as critical. Impacted is an unknown function. Executing a manipulation can lead to line delimiter. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2025-24367. The attack may be launched remotely. There is no exploit available. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability has been found in Cacti up to 1.2.28 and classified as critical. This vulnerability affects an unknown code. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a line delimiter vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-144. The product receives input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could be interpreted as line delimiters when they are sent to a downstream component. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Cacti is an open source performance and fault management framework. An authenticated Cacti user can abuse graph creation and graph template functionality to create arbitrary PHP scripts in the web root of the application, leading to remote code execution on the server. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.2.29.

The advisory is shared for download at github.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2025-24367 since 01/20/2025. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be initiated remotely. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 215468 (Debian dsa-5862 : cacti - security update), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 1.2.29 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (215468). VulDB is the best source for vulnerability data and more expert information about this specific topic.

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Type

• Log Management Software

Name

• Cacti

Version

• 1.2.0
• 1.2.1
• 1.2.2
• 1.2.3
• 1.2.4
• 1.2.5
• 1.2.6
• 1.2.7
• 1.2.8
• 1.2.9
• 1.2.10
• 1.2.11
• 1.2.12
• 1.2.13
• 1.2.14
• 1.2.15
• 1.2.16
• 1.2.17
• 1.2.18
• 1.2.19
• 1.2.20
• 1.2.21
• 1.2.22
• 1.2.23
• 1.2.24
• 1.2.25
• 1.2.26
• 1.2.27
• 1.2.28

License

• open-source

Website

• Product: https://github.com/Cacti/cacti/

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