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High · 8.6 CVE-2026-40079 EUVD-2026-39150

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

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

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.

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 —

Advisories 1

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