🛡️ CVE-2023-31132 — cacti

🟠 CVSS 7.8 — High ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-306 NVD
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Description

Cacti is an open source operational monitoring and fault management framework. Affected versions are subject to a privilege escalation vulnerability. A low-privileged OS user with access to a Windows host where Cacti is installed can create arbitrary PHP files in a web document directory. The user can then execute the PHP files under the security context of SYSTEM. This allows an attacker to escalate privilege from a normal user account to SYSTEM. This issue has been addressed in version 1.2.25. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2023-31132 is classified as CWE-306: Missing Authentication for Critical Function. A sensitive function can be reached without authenticating at all.

Affected software

CVE-2023-31132 is recorded against 1 package.

  • cacti (fixed in 1.2.25)

Timeline and source

Published on 5 September 2023 and last revised on 17 June 2026. A public exploit is known to exist, which raises the urgency of patching considerably. Record sourced from NVD.

References

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Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 7.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-306
Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes
Source NVD
Published 2023-09-05
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
cacti — 1.2.25

References

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