CVE-2023-39511 Stored Cross-Site-Scripting on reports_admin.php device name in Cacti

2023-09-0617:40:13

CWE-79

GitHub_M

www.cve.org

cacti

cross-site-scripting

stored

vulnerability

reports

admin

device name

security update

upgrade

6.1 Medium

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

HIGH

User Interaction

REQUIRED

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

NONE

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

7.2 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

23.3%

JSON

Cacti is an open source operational monitoring and fault management framework. Affected versions are subject to a Stored Cross-Site-Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability which allows an authenticated user to poison data stored in the cacti’s database. These data will be viewed by administrative cacti accounts and execute JavaScript code in the victim’s browser at view-time. The script under reports_admin.php displays reporting information about graphs, devices, data sources etc. CENSUS found that an adversary that is able to configure a malicious device name, related to a graph attached to a report, can deploy a stored XSS attack against any super user who has privileges of viewing the reports_admin.php page, such as administrative accounts. A user that possesses the General Administration>Sites/Devices/Data permissions can configure the device names in cacti. This configuration occurs through http://<HOST>/cacti/host.php, while the rendered malicious payload is exhibited at http://<HOST>/cacti/reports_admin.php when the a graph with the maliciously altered device name is linked to the report. This issue has been addressed in version 1.2.25. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should manually filter HTML output.

CNA Affected

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  {
    "vendor": "Cacti",
    "product": "cacti",
    "versions": [
      {
        "version": "< 1.2.25",
        "status": "affected"
      }
    ]
  }
]