Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jun 24, 2026
Cacti: Command Injection via escape_command() no-op in RRDtool execution
CVE-2026-40079
Description
Cacti is an open source performance and fault management framework. Versions 1.2.30 and prior are vulnerable to Command Injection due to lack of sanitization in the escape_command() function. The escape_command() function at lib/rrd.php is a no-op: it returns $command unchanged. The command line built by rrdtool_function_graph() is passed through this function and then to shell_exec($full_commandline). The risk is in __rrd_execute() where text_format values from graph templates (which may contain host variable substitutions) reach shell_exec without adequate escaping. This issue has been addressed in version 1.2.31.
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Affected products
1- Range: <=1.2.30
Patches
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References
2- github.com/Cacti/cacti/commit/4c09efaebf3a9faec66969d0b5c4aceaf397f37fmitrex_refsource_MISC
- github.com/Cacti/cacti/security/advisories/GHSA-xq98-376r-hv9jmitrex_refsource_CONFIRM
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