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.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 4.6 (Medium). Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.005 (37.9th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 38th percentile — 37.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.005 · newest: 0.005 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- The Cacti Group — versions 0.5, 0.6, 0.6.1
References
- archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2002-09/0028.html (Vendor Advisory, mailing-list, Exploit, Patch)
- www.iss.net/security_center/static/10049.php (Patch, vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory)
- www.knights-of-the-routing-table.org/advisories/krt_001_20020903_cacti.txt (URL Repurposed)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/5628 (Patch, vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory)