Medium severity · published Jan 16, 2019
CVE-2018-20724
A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability exists in pollers.php in Cacti before 1.2.0 due to lack of escaping of unintended characters in the Website Hostname for Data Collectors
4.8
CVSS
1%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability exists in pollers.php in Cacti before 1.2.0 due to lack of escaping of unintended characters in the Website Hostname for Data Collectors.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
High
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.0% · higher than 63% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
CA
Cacti · Cacti
before 1.2.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-20724
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-20724
lists.opensuse.org
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00001.html
lists.opensuse.org
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00005.html
lists.opensuse.org
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-04/msg00042.html
lists.opensuse.org
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-04/msg00048.html
Release Notes
https://github.com/Cacti/cacti/blob/develop/CHANGELOG
Patch
https://github.com/Cacti/cacti/commit/1f42478506d83d188f68ce5ff41728a7bd159f53
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