CVE-2014-5261: Cacti

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 10.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Cacti Cacti: up to and including 0.8.8b; version 0.8.6e only; version 0.8.7 only; version 0.8.7a only; version 0.8.7b only; version 0.8.7c only; …

Published 2014-08-22. Last modified 2026-06-17.