Debian DSA-2747-1 : cacti - several vulnerabilities

high Nessus Plugin ID 69522

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Synopsis

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

Description

Two vulnerabilities were discovered in Cacti, a web interface for graphing of monitoring systems :

- CVE-2013-5588 install/index.php and cacti/host.php suffered from Cross-Site Scripting vulnerabilities.

- CVE-2013-5589 cacti/host.php contained a SQL injection vulnerability, allowing an attacker to execute SQL code on the database used by Cacti.

Solution

Upgrade the cacti packages.

For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in version 0.8.7g-1+squeeze3.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 0.8.8a+dfsg-5+deb7u2.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 69522

File Name: debian_DSA-2747.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 9/2/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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:6.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/31/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-5588, CVE-2013-5589

BID: 62001, 62005

DSA: 2747

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