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Cacti is an open source performance and fault management framework. Versions 1.2.30 and prior are vulnerable to Command Injection due to lack of sanitization in the escape_command() function. The escape_command() function at lib/rrd.php is a no-op: it returns $command unchanged. The command line built by rrdtool_function_graph() is passed through this function and then to shell_exec($full_commandline). The risk is in __rrd_execute() where text_format values from graph templates (which may contain host variable substitutions) reach shell_exec without adequate escaping. This issue has been addressed in version 1.2.31.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2026-04-09 | Published 2026-06-24 | Updated 2026-06-25 | Assigner GitHub_M




HIGH: 8.6CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:L/SI:L/SA:L

Problem types

CWE-78: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection')

CWE-88: Improper Neutralization of Argument Delimiters in a Command ('Argument Injection')

Product status

< 1.2.31
affected

References

github.com/.../cacti/security/advisories/GHSA-xq98-376r-hv9j

github.com/...ommit/4c09efaebf3a9faec66969d0b5c4aceaf397f37f

cve.org (CVE-2026-40079)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2026-40079)

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