{"id":"CVE-2005-2148","details":"Cacti 0.8.6e and earlier does not perform proper input validation to protect against common attacks, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands or SQL by sending a legitimate value in a POST request or cookie, then specifying the attack string in the URL, which causes the get_request_var function to return the wrong value in the $_REQUEST variable, which is cleansed while the original malicious $_GET value remains unmodified, as demonstrated in (1) graph_image.php and (2) graph.php.","modified":"2026-04-10T03:38:07.862657Z","published":"2005-07-06T04:00:00Z","references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/15490"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-764"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.hardened-php.net/advisory-032005.php"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/0951"},{"type":"FIX","url":"http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=10360&max_rows=25&style=flat&viewmonth=200507&viewday=1"},{"type":"FIX","url":"http://www.cacti.net/downloads/patches/0.8.6e/cacti-0.8.6f_security.patch"},{"type":"FIX","url":"http://www.hardened-php.net/advisory-032005.php"},{"type":"FIX","url":"http://www.hardened-php.net/advisory-042005.php"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://securitytracker.com/id?1014361"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/404047/30/30/threaded"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/404054"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14128"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14129"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/21266"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/21270"}],"schema_version":"1.7.5"}