CVE-2019-17358: cacti Deserialization of Untrusted Data
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2019-17358 is a high (CVSS 8.1) Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability in cacti. EPSS estimates a 3.03% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 87.5% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.
Public exploit (GitHub, Date unknown)
Source freshness unavailable
How is this decided?Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 5 · Related 5Timeline
- 12-12-2019PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 05-08-2024Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
Cacti through 1.2.7 is affected by multiple instances of lib/functions.php unsafe deserialization of user-controlled data to populate arrays. An authenticated attacker could use this to influence object data values and control actions taken by Cacti or potentially cause memory corruption in the PHP module.
CVSS metrics
5 scores · 4 sources · 2 versions- OSV · UbuntuEcosystem advisory · calculated8.1HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
- OSV · DebianEcosystem advisory · calculated8.1HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
- OSV · AlpineEcosystem advisory · calculated8.1HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
EPSS trend
Probability
3.03%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
88%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
No change 0.00 pp
From 3.03% on 04-10-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEVNot in the CISA KEV catalog.
ENISA CNWNot in the ENISA CNW catalog.
CIRCLNot in the CIRCL catalog.
Public exploits
1 foundCacti
Maturity: poc
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Known conditions: network-reachable, low-privilege account, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.
Debian2 products
- cacti< 1.2.8+ds1-1 | < 0.8.8h+ds1-10+deb9u1 | < 1.2.2+ds1-2+deb10u2 | < 0.8.8b+dfsg-8+deb8u8
- debian_linuxEOL8.0
Alpine1 product
- cacti< 1.2.8-r0
Cacti1 product
- cacti≤ 1.2.7
Opensuse1 product
- leapEOL42.3
Ubuntu1 product
- cacti< 0.8.8b+dfsg-5ubuntu0.2+esm1 | All versions (No fix recorded)
5 vendors · 6 products
References
18 links- github.com/Cacti/cacti/blob/79f29cddb5eb05cbaff486cd634285ef1fed9326/lib/functions.phpX Refsource MISCExploitThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/12/msg00014.htmlX Refsource MISCMailing ListThird Party Advisory- github.com/Cacti/cacti/commit/adf221344359f5b02b8aed43dfb6b33ae5d708c8X Refsource MISCREPORTProductThird Party Advisory
- people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2019/CVE-2019-17358.htmlX Refsource MISCThird Party Advisory