[ GLSA 200712-02 ] Cacti: SQL injection

[GLSA]

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory

Title: Cacti: SQL injection (GLSA 200712-02)
Severity: normal
Exploitable: remote
Date: December 05, 2007
Bug(s): #199509
ID: 200712-02

Synopsis

An SQL injection vulnerability has been discovered in Cacti.

Background

Cacti is a complete web-based frontend to rrdtool.

Affected Packages

Package: net-analyzer/cacti
Vulnerable: < 0.8.7a
Unaffected: >= 0.8.6j-r7 < 0.8.7
Unaffected: >= 0.8.7a
Architectures: All supported architectures


Description

It has been reported that the "local_graph_id" variable used in the file graph.php is not properly sanitized before being processed in an SQL statement.

Impact

A remote attacker could send a specially crafted request to the vulnerable host, possibly resulting in the execution of arbitrary SQL code.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Cacti users should upgrade to the latest version: