CVE-2025-22604 Cacti has Authenticated RCE via multi-line SNMP responses
Authenticated attackers can execute arbitrary commands by injecting malformed OIDs into multi-line SNMP responses processed by Cacti.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- An administrator
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2025-22604?
CVE-2025-22604 is a critical command injection vulnerability in Cacti Cacti, published on 27 Jan 2025. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Cacti is an open source performance and fault management framework. Due to a flaw in multi-line SNMP result parser, authenticated users can inject malformed OIDs in the response. When processed by ss_net_snmp_disk_io() or ss_net_snmp_disk_bytes(), a part of each OID will be used as a key in an array that is used as part of a system command, causing a command execution vulnerability. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.2.29.
Weakness: CWE-78
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-22604?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Cacti Cacti.
How do I fix CVE-2025-22604?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Upgrade, and pass arguments to programs as a list instead of through a shell. More about Command injection.
Is CVE-2025-22604 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2025-22604 exists.
Public exploit code: 1 proofs of concept on GitHub.
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- CVE-2026-39938 Cacti: Unauthenticated RCE on Graph Image
- CVE-2026-39955 Cacti has Pre-Authentication SQL Injection via unanchored FILTER_VALIDATE_REGEXP in graph_view.php
- CVE-2023-39361 Unauthenticated SQL Injection in graph_view.php in Cacti
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2025-22604, GHSA-c5j8-jxj3-hh36, UBUNTU-CVE-2025-22604.