Debian DLA-2032-1 : cacti security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 131965

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

It was discovered that there was unsafe deserialisation issue in cacti, server monitoring system system.

Unsafe deserialisation of objects which can lead to abuse of the application logic, deny service or even execute arbitrary code.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', this issue has been fixed in cacti version 0.8.8b+dfsg-8+deb8u8.

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.

Solution

Upgrade the affected cacti package.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/12/msg00014.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/jessie/cacti

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 131965

File Name: debian_DLA-2032.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/12/2019

Updated: 4/4/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-17358

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:cacti, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/11/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/12/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-17358