CVEvulnerability

CVE-2002-1479

4.6 MEDIUM Published 2003-04-22 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2003-04-22
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

Cacti before 0.6.8 stores a MySQL username and password in plaintext in config.php, which has world-readable permissions, which allows local users to modify databases as the Cacti user and possibly gain privileges.

Affected configurations

• the cacti group cacti 0.5 • the cacti group cacti 0.6 • the cacti group cacti 0.6.1 • the cacti group cacti 0.6.2 • the cacti group cacti 0.6.3 • the cacti group cacti 0.6.4 • the cacti group cacti 0.6.5 • the cacti group cacti 0.6.6 • the cacti group cacti 0.6.7 • the cacti group cacti 0.6.8

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