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CVE-2010-2544 json

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in utilities.php in Cacti before 0.8.7g, as used in Red Hat High Performance Computing (HPC) Solut…

published 16y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2010-2548

cvss
4.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
4.3%
EPSS 4.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 91%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in utilities.php in Cacti before 0.8.7g, as used in Red Hat High Performance Computing (HPC) Solution and other products, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the filter parameter.

Patch / fix

  • cacti Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 0.8.7g-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2010-2544

  • pcm hpc solution 1.0 1.2-6
  • lava hpc solution 1.0 1.0-10
  • nrpe hpc solution 1.0 2.12-12.1.el5
  • ntop hpc solution 1.0 3.3.9-7.1.el5
  • cacti hpc solution 1.0 0.8.7g-1.1.el5
  • GeoIP hpc solution 1.0 1.4.7-0.1.20090931cvs.el5
  • iozone hpc solution 1.0 3-5.el5
  • netcdf hpc solution 1.0 3.6.2-7.el5

red hat advisories RHSA-2010:0635

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2010-2544 updated cvss 4.3

cacti: XSS in utilities.php log file viewer search pattern

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-34504)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

4.31% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 91% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-34504 Cacti 0.8.7 (RedHat High Performance Computing [HPC]) - 'utilities.php?Filter' Cross-Site Scripting webapps, 2010-08-19
  • securityfocus.com http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/42575 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

References

Sources

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