Vigil@nce - Cacti: Cross Site Scripting via host.php PATH_INFO
January 2018 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can trigger a Cross Site Scripting via host.php
PATH_INFO of Cacti, in order to run JavaScript code in the context
of the web site.
Impacted products: Cacti, Fedora, openSUSE Leap.
Severity: 2/4.
Creation date: 13/11/2017.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
The Cacti product offers a web service.
However, it does not filter received data via host.php PATH_INFO
before inserting them in generated HTML documents.
An attacker can therefore trigger a Cross Site Scripting via
host.php PATH_INFO of Cacti, in order to run JavaScript code in
the context of the web site.
ACCESS TO THE COMPLETE VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/Cacti-Cross-Site-Scripting-via-host-php-PATH-INFO-24415