CVE-2023-39362: Cacti

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 85.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Cacti is an open source operational monitoring and fault management framework. In Cacti 1.2.24, under certain conditions, an authenticated privileged user, can use a malicious string in the SNMP options of a Device, performing command injection and obtaining remote code execution on the underlying server. The `lib/snmp.php` file has a set of functions, with similar behavior, that accept in input some variables and place them into an `exec` call without a proper escape or validation. This issue has been addressed in version 1.2.25. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Affected products

• Cacti Cacti: before 1.2.25 (fixed in 1.2.25)
• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 37 only; version 38 only

Published 2023-09-05. Last modified 2026-06-17.