Vigil@nce - Cacti: shell injection via lib/rrd.php
April 2014 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can inject shell commands via lib/rrd.php, in order to
escalate his privileges.
– Impacted products: Cacti, Fedora
– Severity: 2/4
– Creation date: 03/04/2014
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
The Cacti product uses rrd to manage data.
However, the lib/rrd.php script does not filter shell characters.
An attacker can therefore inject shell commands via lib/rrd.php,
in order to escalate his privileges.
ACCESS TO THE COMPLETE VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
http://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/Cacti-shell-injection-via-lib-rrd-php-14517