CVE-2026-40079

CRITICAL

Cacti: Command Injection via escape_command() no-op in RRDtool execution

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Description

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.

Scores

CVSS v3 9.8
EPSS 0.0114
EPSS Percentile 63.4%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable yes
Technical Impact total

Details

CWE
CWE-78 CWE-88
Status published
Products (2)
cacti/cacti < 1.2.31
Cacti/cacti < 1.2.31
Published Jun 25, 2026
Tracked Since Jun 25, 2026