Vulnerability in The Cacti Group

CVE-2002-1479

Cacti before 0.6.8 stores a MySQL username and password in plaintext in config.php, which has world-readable permissions, which allows local users to modify databases as the Cacti user and possibly gain privileges.

EPSS: 0.005 (37.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

References

  • cve@mitre.org (Vendor Advisory, mailing-list, Exploit, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ, Patch)
  • cve@mitre.org (Patch, vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory, x_refsource_XF)
  • cve@mitre.org (URL Repurposed, x_refsource_MISC)
  • cve@mitre.org (Patch, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, Vendor Advisory)