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Ubuntu 24.04: USN-6969-1 Critical: Cacti Code Execution and XSS

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Calendar Grey August 20, 2024
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Cacti vulnerability report highlights issues impacting various Ubuntu versions. Ensure to implement updates without delay.
Several security issues were fixed in Cacti.

Summary

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: - Ubuntu 24.04 LTS - Ubuntu 22.04 LTS - Ubuntu 20.04 LTS - Ubuntu 18.04 LTS - Ubuntu 16.04 LTS - Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Summary: Several security issues were fixed in Cacti. Software Description: - cacti: web interface for graphing of monitoring systems Details: It was discovered that Cacti did not properly apply checks to the "Package Import" feature. An attacker could possibly use this issue to perform arbitrary code execution. This issue only affected Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2024-25641) It was discovered that Cacti did not properly sanitize values when using javascript based API. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to inject arbitrary javascript code resulting into cross-site scripting vulnerability. This issue only affected Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. (CVE-2024-29894) It was discovered that Cacti did not properly sanitize values when managing data q...

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Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS cacti 1.2.26+ds1-1ubuntu0.1 Ubuntu 22.04 LTS cacti 1.2.19+ds1-2ubuntu1.1 Ubuntu 20.04 LTS cacti 1.2.10+ds1-1ubuntu1.1 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS cacti 1.1.38+ds1-1ubuntu0.1~esm3 Available with Ubuntu Pro Ubuntu 16.04 LTS cacti 0.8.8f+ds1-4ubuntu4.16.04.2+esm2 Available with Ubuntu Pro Ubuntu 14.04 LTS cacti 0.8.8b+dfsg-5ubuntu0.2+esm2 Available with Ubuntu Pro In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6969-1

CVE-2024-25641, CVE-2024-29894, CVE-2024-31443, CVE-2024-31444,

CVE-2024-31445, CVE-2024-31458, CVE-2024-31459, CVE-2024-31460,

CVE-2024-34340

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6969-1

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cacti/1.2.26+ds1-1ubuntu0.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cacti/1.2.19+ds1-2ubuntu1.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cacti/1.2.10+ds1-1ubuntu1.1

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