🛡️ CVE-2024-43363 on Debian — cacti

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
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Description

Cacti is an open source performance and fault management framework. An admin user can create a device with a malicious hostname containing php code and repeat the installation process (completing only step 5 of the installation process is enough, no need to complete the steps before or after it) to use a php file as the cacti log file. After having the malicious hostname end up in the logs (log poisoning), one can simply go to the log file url to execute commands to achieve RCE. This issue has been addressed in version 1.2.28 and all users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Distribution advisory

This page covers CVE-2024-43363 as tracked by Debian, for the package cacti. The fix is available in version 1.2.28+ds1-1; earlier versions remain affected.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs administrative 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

DEBIAN-CVE-2024-43363 is classified as CWE-94: Code Injection. Input is incorporated into code that the runtime evaluates, so an attacker can have their own code executed.

Affected software

DEBIAN-CVE-2024-43363 is recorded against 1 package.

  • cacti (fixed in 1.2.28+ds1-1)

Timeline and source

Published on 7 October 2024 and last revised on 4 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

security-tracker.debian.org (Advisory)

CVE-2024-43363 on other distributions

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Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2024-10-07
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-08-04
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
cacti — 1.2.28+ds1-1

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