{"id":81089,"date":"2026-06-26T02:13:47","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T22:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-40084-cacti-arbitrary-file-read-via-path-traversal-in-report-format_file-parameter\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T02:13:47","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T22:43:47","slug":"cve-2026-40084-cacti-arbitrary-file-read-via-path-traversal-in-report-format_file-parameter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-40084-cacti-arbitrary-file-read-via-path-traversal-in-report-format_file-parameter\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2026-40084 &#8211; Cacti: Arbitrary File Read via Path Traversal in Report `format_file` Parameter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2026-40084<\/p>\n<p>  Published : June 25, 2026, 10:43 p.m. | 1\u00a0hour, 1\u00a0minute ago<\/p>\n<p>  Description :Cacti is an open source performance and fault management framework. Versions 1.2.30 and prior are vulnerable to Path Traversal  through the Report format_file Parameter, causing arbitrary file read. This vulnerability occurs in two stages. In the first stage (stored injection), lib\/html_reports.php at line 283 stores $save[&#8216;format_file&#8217;] =  $post[&#8216;format_file&#8217;] directly into the database without any validation. In the second stage (file read), lib\/reports.php at line 667 concatenates  CACTI_PATH_FORMATS . &#8216;\/&#8217; . $format_file, and line 670 then calls file($format_file), reading arbitrary files from the filesystem. This issue has been fixed in version 1.2.31.<\/p>\n<p>  Severity: 0.0 | NA<\/p>\n<p>  Visit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2026-40084 Published : June 25, 2026, 10:43 p.m. | 1\u00a0hour, 1\u00a0minute ago Description :Cacti is an open source performance and fault management framework. Versions 1.2.30 and prior are vulnerable to Path Traversal through the Report format_file Parameter, causing arbitrary file read. This vulnerability occurs in two stages. In the first stage (stored injection), &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}