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CVE-2022-46169: Cacti Command Injection Vulnerability

CVE-2022-46169 · Severity: critical · CVSS 9.8 · Exploited in the wild · Published 2023-02-16

Technologies: Cacti. Vendors: Cacti.

Executive brief

Cacti contains a command injection vulnerability in remote_agent.php due to improper authorization bypass and insufficient sanitization of the poller_id parameter. An unauthenticated attacker can bypass IP-based authentication by spoofing HTTP headers and execute arbitrary OS commands via the poll_for_data function when a script-based poller item is configured.

Affected products

  • Cacti Cacti 1.2.x before 1.2.23, 1.3.x before 1.3.0

Timeline

  • 2022-12-05: disclosed: Date based on GHSA-6p93-p743-35gf advisory publication
  • 2023-02-16: kev added: Added to CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog
  • 2023-02-16: exploited: Confirmed exploited in the wild per CISA KEV catalog entry

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