Skip to content
Heist/ feed
Back to feed
Critical

Cacti command injection in cmd_realtime.php

Type: advisorySources: OSV

Cacti provides an operational monitoring and fault management framework. A command injection vulnerability on the 1.3.x DEV branch allows any unauthenticated user to execute arbitrary command on the server when `register_argc_argv` option of PHP is `On`. In `cmd_realtime.php` line 119, the `$poller_id` used as part of the command execution is sourced from `$_SERVER['argv']`, which can be controlled by URL when `register_argc_argv` option of PHP is `On`. And this option is `On` by default in many environments such as the main PHP Docker image for PHP. Commit 53e8014d1f082034e0646edc6286cde3800c683d contains a patch for the issue, but this commit was reverted in commit 99633903cad0de5ace636249de16f77e57a3c8fc.

Products
Not specified
Affected versions
Not specified
Fixed versions
Not specified
CVEs
CVE-2024-29895
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
7 Nov 2026, 08:47 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

Cacti command injection in cmd_realtime.php

core-osv · Original source

Published 13 May 2024, 14:33 UTC

Cacti provides an operational monitoring and fault management framework. A command injection vulnerability on the 1.3.x DEV branch allows any unauthenticated user to execute arbitrary command on the server when `register_argc_argv` option of PHP is `On`. In `cmd_realtime.php` line 119, the `$poller_id` used as part of the command execution is sourced from `$_SERVER['argv']`, which can be controlled by URL when `register_argc_argv` option of PHP is `On`. And this option is `On` by default in many environments such as the main PHP Docker image for PHP. Commit 53e8014d1f082034e0646edc6286cde3800c683d contains a patch for the issue, but this commit was reverted in commit 99633903cad0de5ace636249de16f77e57a3c8fc.

osv:CVE-2024-29895
Complete source record
{
  "id": "1319015fd025695c7429e1365f6ef29da7f00da695de6c666458b26c4df3af8b",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-29895",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "Cacti command injection in cmd_realtime.php",
    "summary": "Cacti provides an operational monitoring and fault management framework. A command injection vulnerability on the 1.3.x DEV branch allows any unauthenticated user to execute arbitrary command on the server when `register_argc_argv` option of PHP is `On`. In `cmd_realtime.php` line 119, the `$poller_id` used as part of the command execution is sourced from `$_SERVER['argv']`, which can be controlled by URL when `register_argc_argv` option of PHP is `On`. And this option is `On` by default in many environments such as the main PHP Docker image for PHP. Commit 53e8014d1f082034e0646edc6286cde3800c683d contains a patch for the issue, but this commit was reverted in commit 99633903cad0de5ace636249de16f77e57a3c8fc.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2024-29895",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "critical",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2024-29895",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2024-29895",
        "GHSA-cr28-x256-xf5m"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/cacti/cacti",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "53e8014d1f082034e0646edc6286cde3800c683d"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "99633903cad0de5ace636249de16f77e57a3c8fc"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "99633903cad0de5ace636249de16f77e57a3c8fc"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "DESCRIPTION"
                  },
                  {
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "fixed": "53e8014d1f082034e0646edc6286cde3800c683d"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "REFERENCES_COMMIT"
                  },
                  {
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "fixed": "99633903cad0de5ace636249de16f77e57a3c8fc"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "REFERENCES_COMMIT"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "release/1.2.22",
            "release/1.2.21",
            "release/1.2.20",
            "release/1.2.19",
            "releaes/1.2.19",
            "release/1.2.18",
            "release/1.2.17",
            "rel-1.2.17",
            "release/1.2.16",
            "release/1.2.15",
            "release/1.2.14",
            "release/1.2.13",
            "release/1.2.12",
            "release/1.2.11",
            "release/1.2.10",
            "release/1.2.9",
            "release/1.2.8",
            "release/1.2.7",
            "release/1.2.6",
            "release/1.2.5",
            "release/1.2.4",
            "release/1.2.3",
            "release/1.2.2",
            "release/1.2.1",
            "release/1.2.0",
            "release/1.1.38",
            "release/1.1.37",
            "release/1.1.36",
            "release/1.1.35",
            "release/1.1.34",
            "release/1.1.33",
            "release/1.1.32",
            "release/1.1.31",
            "release/1.1.30",
            "release/1.1.29",
            "release/1.1.28",
            "release/1.1.27",
            "release/1.1.26",
            "release/1.1.25",
            "release/1.1.24",
            "release/1.1.23",
            "release/1.1.22",
            "release/1.1.21",
            "release/1.1.20",
            "release/1.1.19",
            "release/1.1.18",
            "release/1.1.17",
            "release/1.1.16",
            "release/1.1.15",
            "release/1.1.14",
            "release/1.1.13",
            "release/1.1.12",
            "release/1.1.11",
            "release/1.1.8",
            "release/1.1.7",
            "release/1.1.6",
            "release/1.1.5",
            "release/1.1.4",
            "release/1.1.3",
            "release/1.1.2",
            "release/1.1.1",
            "release/1.1.0",
            "release/1.0.6",
            "release/1.0.5",
            "release/1.0.4",
            "release/1.0.3",
            "release/1.0.2",
            "release/1.0.1",
            "release/1.0.0"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-29895.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:50.259472964Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/Cacti/cacti/blob/501712998589763d411a68d35e3cda98fd9cfd18/cmd_realtime.php#L119",
        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/29xxx/CVE-2024-29895.json",
        "https://github.com/Cacti/cacti/security/advisories/GHSA-cr28-x256-xf5m",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-29895",
        "https://github.com/Cacti/cacti/commit/53e8014d1f082034e0646edc6286cde3800c683d",
        "https://github.com/Cacti/cacti/commit/99633903cad0de5ace636249de16f77e57a3c8fc"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "cwe_ids": [
          "CWE-77"
        ],
        "cna_assigner": "GitHub_M",
        "unresolved_ranges": [
          {
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "introduced": "= 1.3.x DEV"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "= 1.3.x DEV"
                  }
                ],
                "source": "AFFECTED_FIELD",
                "strategy": "StandaloneSingleVersion"
              }
            ]
          }
        ],
        "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/29xxx/CVE-2024-29895.json"
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2024-29895",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 518799,
  "published_at": "2024-05-13T14:33:27.594+00:00"
}