Vulnerability Report

CVE-2017-12066

Title: Cacti Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

XSS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2017-12066.

CWE Category CWE-79

Published Date Aug 01, 2017

Modified Date Jun 17, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 5.4 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

1.42%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2017-12066: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in aggregate_graphs.php in Cacti before 1.1.16 allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via specially crafted HTTP Referer headers, related to the $cancel_url variable. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix (lack of the htmlspecialchars ENT_QUOTES flag) for CVE-2017-11163.

Impacted Vendors

the_cacti_group 1

cacti 1

Reference Links

https://cacti.net/release_notes.php?version=1.1.16 https://github.com/Cacti/cacti/commit/bd0e586f6f46d814930226f1516a194e7e72293e https://github.com/Cacti/cacti/issues/877 https://cacti.net/release_notes.php?version=1.1.16 https://github.com/Cacti/cacti/commit/bd0e586f6f46d814930226f1516a194e7e72293e https://github.com/Cacti/cacti/issues/877

CVSS v3.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.4

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

REQUIRED

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

CHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity LOW

3.5

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns