Cacti contains a flaw that may allow an attacker to carry out an SQL injection attack. The issue is due to the user input filters that were added to the Cacti 0.8.6e codebase to address the possible SQL Injections, which were wrongly implemented and can be tricked to let injection attacks through. This may allow an attacker to perform multiple SQL injections, which may allow exploitation to gain administrative privileges and perform arbitrary SQL queries. These attacks require that "register_globals" is enabled.

Upgrade to version 0.8.6f or higher, as it has been reported to fix this vulnerability. An upgrade is required as there are no known workarounds.

• Security Tracker: 1014361
• Secunia Advisory ID: 15908 16050 16136
• CVE ID: 2005-2148 (see also: NVD)
• Mail List Post: http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2005-07/0029.html
• Other Advisory URL: http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2005-Jul/0004.html
  http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-764
  http://www.hardened-php.net/advisory-032005.php
• Vendor URL: http://www.cacti.net/
• Vendor Specific News/Changelog Entry: http://www.cacti.net/release_notes_0_8_6f.php

• Stefan Esser - sesserhardened-php.net - www.hardened-php.net