[Secure-testing-team] Bug#867532: cacti: CVE-2017-10970: XSS vulnerability via link.php

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: cacti
Version: 1.1.10+ds1-6
Severity: important
Tags: patch security upstream
Forwarded: https://github.com/Cacti/cacti/issues/838

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for cacti.

CVE-2017-10970[0]:
| 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.

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-10970
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-10970
[1] https://github.com/Cacti/cacti/issues/838

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore