HIGH
Cacti: Privilege escalation under certain conditions
Published Nov 30, 2009
9.0
HIGHCVSS 2.0
EPSS 11.48%
Description
Cacti 0.8.7e and earlier allows remote authenticated administrators to gain privileges by modifying the "Data Input Method" for the "Linux - Get Memory Usage" setting to contain arbitrary commands.
Affected products
No data.
OR
- ≤ 0.8.7e
- 0.6.7
- 0.8
- 0.8.1
- 0.8.2
- 0.8.2a
- 0.8.3
- 0.8.3a
- 0.8.4
- 0.8.5
- 0.8.5a
- 0.8.6c
- 0.8.6f
- 0.8.6i
- 0.8.7
- 0.8.7a
No data.
No Red Hat product state for this CVE.
No package ranges for this CVE.
Remediation
No remediation recorded yet.
Metrics
No CVSS v4.0 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.1 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.0 score for this CVE.
9.0 HIGH NVD
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication Single
Confidentiality Impact Complete
Integrity Impact Complete
Availability Impact Complete
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
No CISA SSVC assessment for this CVE yet.
11.48% 0.11477
Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.
EPSS probability 0.11477
Score over time
2022–2026- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Percentile over time
- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Table of values (11 key points)
Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.
| Date | Score | Percentile | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1, 2026 | 11.48% (0.11477) | 95.89th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Jun 15, 2026 | 11.48% (0.11477) | 95.45th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Mar 19, 2025 | 8.43% (0.08430) | 91.27th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 17, 2025 | 7.00% (0.07003) | 90.80th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Dec 17, 2024 | 3.03% (0.03033) | 90.73th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Jan 18, 2024 | 5.80% (0.05805) | 92.66th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 16, 2023 | 6.98% (0.06975) | 92.85th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 7, 2023 | 5.95% (0.05947) | 92.28th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 6, 2023 | 9.66% (0.09659) | 94.28th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Apr 1, 2022 | 9.66% (0.09659) | 93.75th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 4, 2022 | 9.66% (0.09659) | 87.18th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
Weaknesses (1)
References (14)
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2009-11/0292.html mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCExploit
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00001.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00005.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-04/msg00042.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-04/msg00048.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/11/26/1 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/11/30/2 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/508129/100/0/threaded mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37137 vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDExploit
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2009-4112 Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=542985 Issue Tracking
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/54473 vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-4112
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-4112
Change history (0)
No recorded changes yet.
Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Nov 30, 2009
Updated Aug 7, 2024
Reserved Nov 30, 2009
Link CVE-2009-4112
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated n/a