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Medium · 6.1 CVE-2026-40080 EUVD-2026-39585

Cacti: Open Redirect via HTTP_REFERER substring check in auth_login_redirect

Published Jun 25, 2026 · Updated Jun 26, 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 Open Redirect through a substring check rather than a host check at str_contains($referer, CACTI_PATH_URL). When the user's login_opts == '1' (redirect to referer after login), the function used $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] directly. An attacker could craft a referer such as https://evil.com/cacti/. Where CACTI_PATH_URL is /cacti/, the substring matches and the user is redirected to evil.com after login. The pre-existing validate_redirect_url() helper at lib/html_utility.php performed proper validation but was not invoked from auth_login_redirect(). This 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 —

Advisories 1

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