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Low · 2.9 CVE-2026-39894 EUVD-2026-39132

Cacti: RRDtool metric shift via LC_NUMERIC locale comma decimal formatting

Published Jun 24, 2026 · Updated Jun 25, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Cacti is an open source performance and fault management framework. In versions 1.2.30 and below, the locale-dependent decimal formatting in rrdtool_function_update() can corrupt RRDtool metric values. The rrdtool_function_update() function checks metric values with is_numeric() and concatenates them into the RRDtool update command via PHP string interpolation. PHP's string cast of floats is locale-sensitive: if LC_NUMERIC uses comma as decimal separator (e.g., de_DE), a value of 1.5 becomes "1,5". RRDtool expects . as decimal separator, causing metric data to shift into wrong columns or be silently dropped. No setlocale() reset is present in the update path. This causes a data integrity issue, but is not remotely exploitable; it requires server locale misconfiguration. The issue has been fixed in version 1.2.31.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Cacti cacti < 1.2.31 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 cacti 1.2.31+ds1-1 —
Debian 13 cacti No fix yet —
Debian 12 cacti No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 cacti No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS cacti No fix yet —
Ubuntu 25.10 cacti No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS cacti No fix yet —
Show 5 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro 22.04 LTS cacti No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS cacti No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS cacti No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS cacti No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS cacti No fix yet —

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