7.5

CVE-2014-5261: cacti Code Injection

CVSS: 7.5v2.0HighModified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2014-5261DEBIAN-CVE-2014-5261
Published 22-08-2014Last modified 06-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2014-5261 is a high (CVSS 7.5) Code Injection vulnerability in cacti. EPSS estimates a 10.77% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 95.8% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
32/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
7.5/10
010
High · v2.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
10.77%
0%100%
Medium · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 3
DLA-40-1DSA-3007-1MGASA-2014-0403

Timeline

  1. 22-08-2014
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 06-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

The graph settings script (graph_settings.php) in Cacti 0.8.8b and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a font size, related to the rrdtool commandline in lib/rrd.php.

CVSS metrics

1 score · 1 source · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

10.77%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

96%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 10.77% on 21-09-2026

21-09-202621-10-2026
EPSS score
10.77%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Cacti1 product
  • cacti≤ 0.8.8b | 0.8.6e | 0.8.7 | 0.8.7a | 0.8.7b | 0.8.7c | 0.8.7d | 0.8.7e | 0.8.7f | 0.8.7g | 0.8.7i | 0.8.8 | 0.8.8a
Debian1 product
  • cacti< 0.8.8b+dfsg-8
Ubuntu1 product
  • cacti< 0.8.8b+dfsg-5ubuntu0.1

3 vendors · 3 products

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