SQL injection vulnerability in tree.php in Cacti 0.8.8g and earlier allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the parent_id parameter in an item_edit action.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - SQL injection vulnerability in tree.php in Cacti 0.8.8g and earlier allows remote authenticated users to
    execute arbitrary SQL commands via the parent_id parameter in an item_edit action. (CVE-2016-3172)

Three security issues have been found in cacti :

CVE-2016-2313

auth_login.php allows remote authenticated users who use web authentication to bypass intended access restrictions by logging in as a user not in the cacti database.

CVE-2016-3172

A SQL injection vulnerability in tree.php allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the parent_id parameter in an item_edit action.

CVE-2016-3659

A SQL injection vulnerability in graph_view.php allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the host_group_data parameter.

The fix for CVE-2016-2313 did not take into account guest users. This update fixes it.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 0.8.8a+dfsg-5+deb7u10.

We recommend that you upgrade your cacti packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201607-05 (Cacti: Multiple vulnerabilities)

    Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Cacti. Please review       the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
  Impact :

    A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the       privileges of the process, or remote authenticated users could bypass       intended access restrictions.
  Workaround :

    There is no known workaround at this time.

This update for cacti fixes the following issues :

Security issues fixed :

  - CVE-2016-3172: SQL injection in tree.php (boo#971357)

  - CVE-2016-3659: SQL injection in lib/functions.php     (boo#974013)

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
403767	Alpine: multiple cacti packages: security update to 0.8.8g-r1	Tenable Cloud Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	high
403767	Alpine: multiple cacti packages: security update to 0.8.8g-r1	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	high
92547	Debian DLA-560-2 : cacti regression update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high
92349	GLSA-201607-05 : Cacti: Multiple vulnerabilities	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	high
91271	openSUSE Security Update : cacti (openSUSE-2016-601)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high

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