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CVE-2017-16660 (GCVE-0-2017-16660)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-11-08 05:00 – Updated: 2024-09-16 17:03
VLAI
Summary
Cacti 1.1.27 allows remote authenticated administrators to conduct Remote Code Execution attacks by placing the Log Path under the web root, and then making a remote_agent.php request containing PHP code in a Client-ip header.
CWE
  • n/a
References
URL Tags
https://github.com/Cacti/cacti/issues/1066 x_refsource_MISC
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