CVE-2002-1479

published 2003-04-22

CVE-2002-1479: Cacti before 0.6.8 stores a MySQL username and password in plaintext in config.php, which has world-readable permissions, which allows local users to modify…

Priority P4 13 medium 4.6 CVSS 2.0

AV L AC L Au N C P I P A P

Cacti before 0.6.8 stores a MySQL username and password in plaintext in config.php, which has world-readable permissions, which allows local users to modify databases as the Cacti user and possibly gain privileges.

Affected

15 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
cacti	cacti	>= 0 < 0.6.8-1	0.6.8-1
cacti	cacti	>= 0 < 0.6.8-1	0.6.8-1
cacti	cacti	>= 0 < 0.6.8-1	0.6.8-1
cacti	cacti	>= 0 < 0.6.8-1	0.6.8-1
debian	cacti	< cacti 0.6.8-1 (bookworm)	cacti 0.6.8-1 (bookworm)
the_cacti_group	cacti	—	—
the_cacti_group	cacti	—	—
the_cacti_group	cacti	—	—
the_cacti_group	cacti	—	—
the_cacti_group	cacti	—	—
the_cacti_group	cacti	—	—
the_cacti_group	cacti	—	—
the_cacti_group	cacti	—	—
the_cacti_group	cacti	—	—
the_cacti_group	cacti	—	—

CVSS provenance

nvd v2.0 4.6 MEDIUM AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

osv 4.6 MEDIUM

vendor_debian 4.6 MEDIUM

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