CVE-2024-54146

HighPublic PoC

Published: 27 January 2025

Published

27 January 2025

Modified

04 March 2025

KEV Added

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Patch

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CVSS Score 7.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H

EPSS Score 0.0924 92.8th percentile

Risk Priority 21 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-54146 is a high-severity SQL Injection (CWE-89) vulnerability in Cacti Cacti. Its CVSS base score is 7.6 (High).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked in the top 7.2% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified are NIST 800-53 SI-10 (Information Input Validation) and SI-2 (Flaw Remediation).

Threat & Defense at a Glance

What attackers do: exploitation maps to Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190). What defenders deploy: see the NIST 800-53 controls recommended below.

Threat & Defense Details

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5)AI

SI-2 Flaw Remediation good match

prevent

Directly mitigates CVE-2024-54146 by requiring timely patching of the SQL injection flaw in Cacti to version 1.2.29.

SI-10 Information Input Validation good match

prevent

Prevents exploitation of the SQL injection vulnerability by enforcing validation and sanitization of the unsanitized graph_template parameter in host_templates.php.

RA-5 Vulnerability Monitoring and Scanning partial match

detect

Identifies the SQL injection vulnerability through vulnerability scanning, enabling proactive remediation before exploitation.

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application Initial Access

Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.

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Why these techniques?

SQL injection flaw in web application (host_templates.php) directly enables remote exploitation of a publicly accessible management interface.

Confidence: HIGH · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v18.1

NVD Description

Cacti is an open source performance and fault management framework. Cacti has a SQL injection vulnerability in the template function of host_templates.php using the graph_template parameter. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.2.29.

Deeper analysisAI

CVE-2024-54146 is a SQL injection vulnerability (CWE-89) affecting Cacti, an open-source performance and fault management framework. The flaw exists in the template function of the host_templates.php file, where the graph_template parameter is not properly sanitized, enabling injection attacks. Published on January 27, 2025, the vulnerability carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.6 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H) and was addressed in Cacti version 1.2.29.

An attacker with low-privilege access, such as an authenticated user, can exploit this over the network with low complexity and no user interaction required. Exploitation allows limited impacts on confidentiality and integrity—potentially exposing or altering some data—but a high availability impact, such as denial-of-service through database disruption.

Mitigation is outlined in the Cacti GitHub security advisory (GHSA-vj9g-p7f2-4wqj) and the associated fix commit (c7e4ee798d263a3209ae6e7ba182c7b65284d8f0), which recommend upgrading to Cacti 1.2.29 or later to patch the SQL injection handling in host_templates.php.