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Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2021-3816
CVE-2021-3816:
Cacti vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
CVE-2021-3816 affects Cacti version 1.1.38, discovered and disclosed in September 2021. The vulnerability allows authenticated users with User Management permissions to inject arbitrary HTML in the group_prefix field during the creation of a new group via the "Copy" method at user_group_admin.php (NVD).
Technical details
The vulnerability is a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) issue that occurs in the user group management functionality of Cacti 1.1.38. Specifically, the vulnerability exists in the group_prefix field when creating new groups through the Copy method in the user_group_admin.php file (MITRE).
Impact
The vulnerability allows authenticated attackers with User Management permissions to inject arbitrary HTML code into the application, potentially leading to cross-site scripting attacks against other users of the system (Debian Security).
Mitigation and workarounds
The vulnerability has been fixed in subsequent releases of Cacti. Users should upgrade to a patched version. The fix was implemented in version 1.2.0-beta1 through commit 2b8097c06030ab72c5b3bdadb23dceb5332f0e94 (Debian Security).
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Source: This report was generated using AI
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