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ubuntu-cve-2023-49088

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

Published

2023-12-22 17:15

Modified

2025-10-24 05:02

Summary

Details

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://<HOST>/cacti/data_debug.php. As of time of publication, no complete fix has been included in Cacti.

Severity

6.1 (Medium)


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

4.8 (Medium)


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

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-49088	REPORT
	https://github.com/Cacti/cacti/security/advisorie…	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-49088	REPORT

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  "modified": "2025-10-24T05:02:21Z",
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CVE-2023-49088 (GCVE-0-2023-49088)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-12-22 16:16 – Updated: 2026-02-25 16:34

Title

Cacti has incomplete fix for CVE-2023-39515

Summary

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://<HOST>/cacti/data_debug.php`. As of time of publication, no complete fix has been included in Cacti.

Severity

6.1 (Medium)


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

SSVC

Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-03-26 04:00 UTC

CWE

CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Assigner

GitHub_M mitre root

References

5 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/Cacti/cacti/security/advisorie…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/Cacti/cacti/security/advisorie…	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/Cacti/cacti/blob/5f6f65c215d66…	x_refsource_MISC
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024…
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
Cacti	cacti	Affected: <= 1.2.25

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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date	Other

Nomenclature

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Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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