lib/rrd.php in Cacti 1.1.27 allows remote authenticated administrators to execute arbitrary OS commands via the path_rrdtool parameter in an action=save request to settings.php.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - lib/rrd.php in Cacti 1.1.27 allows remote authenticated administrators to execute arbitrary OS commands     via the path_rrdtool parameter in an action=save request to settings.php. (CVE-2017-16641)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

- Update to 1.1.28

  - CVE-2017-16641, CVE-2017-16660, CVE-2017-16661,     CVE-2017-16785

Release notes: https://www.cacti.net/release_notes.php?version=1.1.28

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

This update for cacti, cacti-spine to version 1.1.28 fixes the following issues :

  - CVE-2017-16641: Potential code execution vulnerability     in RRDtool functions (boo#1067166)

  - CVE-2017-16660: Remote execution vulnerability in     logging function (boo#1067164)

  - CVE-2017-16661: Arbitrary file read vulnerability in     view log file (boo#1067163)

  - CVE-2017-16785: Reflection XSS vulnerability     (boo#1068028)

This update to version 1.1.28 also contains a number of upstream bug fixes and improvements.

cacti reports :

Changelog

issue#1057: CVE-2017-16641 - Potential vulnerability in RRDtool functions

issue#1066: CVE-2017-16660 in remote_agent.php logging function

issue#1066: CVE-2017-16661 in view log file

issue#1071: CVE-2017-16785 in global_session.php Reflection XSS

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
250559	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2017-16641	Nessus	Misc.	high
105981	Fedora 27 : cacti (2017-cf75844225)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
104829	Fedora 25 : cacti (2017-d008ecf87a)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
104796	Fedora 26 : cacti (2017-9762a831b2)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
104762	openSUSE Security Update : cacti / cacti-spine (openSUSE-2017-1290)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
104733	FreeBSD : cacti -- multiple vulnerabilities (db570002-ce06-11e7-804e-c85b763a2f96)	Nessus	FreeBSD Local Security Checks	high

Detections

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