CVE-2017-11691

Publication date 27 July 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in auth_profile.php in Cacti 1.1.13 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via specially crafted HTTP Referer headers.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
cacti	18.10 cosmic	Not affected
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	17.10 artful	Ignored end of life
	17.04 zesty	Ignored end of life
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected

Notes

seth-arnold

The debian package may be missing the second fix

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
cacti	Upstream: 104090a Upstream: d90b945

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 5.4 · Medium

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	Required
Scope	Changed
Confidentiality impact	Low
Integrity impact	Low
Availability impact	None

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	5.4 · Medium
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

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