Vulnerability Report

CVE-2017-16661

Title: Cacti Path Traversal / LFI

Arbitrary File Access

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2017-16661.

CWE Category CWE-200

Published Date Nov 08, 2017

Modified Date Jun 17, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 4.9 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

1.47%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2017-16661: Cacti 1.1.27 allows remote authenticated administrators to read arbitrary files by placing the Log Path into a private directory, and then making a clog.php?filename= request, as demonstrated by filename=passwd (with a Log Path under /etc) to read /etc/passwd.

Impacted Vendors

the_cacti_group 1

Reference Links

https://github.com/Cacti/cacti/issues/1066 https://github.com/Cacti/cacti/issues/1066

CVSS v3.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.9

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

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

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2017-16661 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 17, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

May 13, 2026 MODIFIED

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Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

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Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

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Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

May 13, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

May 13, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 20, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

November 08, 2017 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector NETWORK

Complexity LOW

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.