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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2017-10970: Security patch for cacti (ALAS-2017-874)

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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2017-10970: Security patch for cacti (ALAS-2017-874)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
07/06/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
09/01/2017
Modified
02/02/2018

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in link.php in Cacti 1.1.12 allows remote anonymous users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the id parameter, related to the die_html_input_error function in lib/html_validate.php.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-cacti

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