Bug 1786609 (CVE-2019-17358)

Summary:	CVE-2019-17358 cacti: unsafe deserialization of user-controlled data
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz <gsuckevi>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	unspecified	CC:	imlinux+fedora, marc.w.hagen, ms
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Doc Text:	A flaw was found in Cacti, where multiple instances of the lib/functions.php perform unsafe deserialization of user-controlled data to populate arrays. This flaw allows an authenticated attacker to influence object data values and control actions taken by Cacti or potentially cause memory corruption in the PHP module.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2019-12-26 14:09:29 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	1786611, 1786612
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Description Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2019-12-26 13:34:34 UTC

Cacti through 1.2.7 is affected by multiple instances of lib/functions.php unsafe deserialization of user-controlled data to populate arrays. An authenticated attacker could use this to influence object data values and control actions taken by Cacti or potentially cause memory corruption in the PHP module.

Reference:
https://github.com/Cacti/cacti/issues/3026

Upstream commit:
https://github.com/Cacti/cacti/commit/adf221344359f5b02b8aed43dfb6b33ae5d708c8

Comment 1 Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2019-12-26 13:37:46 UTC

Created cacti tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1786612]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1786611]

Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-12-26 14:09:29 UTC

This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.