Cacti has incomplete fix for CVE-2023-39515
Cacti is an open source operational monitoring and fault management framework. The fix applied for CVE-2023-39515 in version 1.2.25 is incomplete as it enables an adversary to have a victim browser execute malicious code when a victim user hovers their mouse over the malicious data source path in `data_debug.php`. To perform the cross-site scripting attack, the adversary needs to be an authorized cacti user with the following permissions: `General Administration>Sites/Devices/Data`. The victim of this attack could be any account with permissions to view `http:///cacti/data_debug.php`. As of time of publication, no complete fix has been included in Cacti.
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- CVE-2023-49088
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- 5 Nov 2026, 03:35 UTC · Revision 1
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Cacti has incomplete fix for CVE-2023-39515
core-osv · Original sourcePublished 22 Dec 2023, 16:16 UTC
Cacti is an open source operational monitoring and fault management framework. The fix applied for CVE-2023-39515 in version 1.2.25 is incomplete as it enables an adversary to have a victim browser execute malicious code when a victim user hovers their mouse over the malicious data source path in `data_debug.php`. To perform the cross-site scripting attack, the adversary needs to be an authorized cacti user with the following permissions: `General Administration>Sites/Devices/Data`. The victim of this attack could be any account with permissions to view `http:///cacti/data_debug.php`. As of time of publication, no complete fix has been included in Cacti.
osv:CVE-2023-49088
Complete source record
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