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Cacti 'filter' SQLi (CVE-2020-14295)
cve-2020 | Level: Easy | Total Lab Runs: 0 | Premium Lab |
What is Cacti?
Cacti is an open-source, web-based network monitoring and graphing tool designed as a front-end application for the open-source, industry-standard data logging tool RRDtool.
Reference: https://www.cacti.net/
What is CVE-2020-14295?
A SQL injection issue in color.php in Cacti 1.2.12 and before allows an admin to inject SQL via the filter parameter. This can also lead to remote command execution because the product accepts stacked queries.
Reference: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-14295
Lab Environment
In this lab environment, the user is going to get access to a Kali GUI instance. A Cacti instance vulnerable to SQL injection, identified by CVE-2020-14295, is running on the target server. It can be accessed using the tools installed on Kali at http://demo.ine.local.
Objective: Exploit the SQL injection vulnerability in Cacti.
The following credentials may be useful:
Username: admin
Password: P@$$w0rd
Target URL:
Note: After starting the lab, if you don't find certain ports open on the target machine, please wait, as it takes time for the whole Cacti service to load.
Instructions:
This lab is dedicated to you! No other users are on this network :)
Once you start the lab, you will have access to a root terminal of a Kali instance.
The target application should be accessible at http://demo.ine.local.
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- Using automated scanners
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- Attacking the lab infrastructure
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