CVE-2026-39894

NameCVE-2026-39894
DescriptionCacti is an open source performance and fault management framework. In versions 1.2.30 and below, the locale-dependent decimal formatting in rrdtool_function_update() can corrupt RRDtool metric values. The rrdtool_function_update() function checks metric values with is_numeric() and concatenates them into the RRDtool update command via PHP string interpolation. PHP's string cast of floats is locale-sensitive: if LC_NUMERIC uses comma as decimal separator (e.g., de_DE), a value of 1.5 becomes "1,5". RRDtool expects . as decimal separator, causing metric data to shift into wrong columns or be silently dropped. No setlocale() reset is present in the update path. This causes a data integrity issue, but is not remotely exploitable; it requires server locale misconfiguration. The issue has been fixed in version 1.2.31.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
cacti (PTS)bullseye1.2.16+ds1-2+deb11u3vulnerable
bullseye (security)1.2.16+ds1-2+deb11u5vulnerable
bookworm, bookworm (security)1.2.24+ds1-1+deb12u5vulnerable
trixie1.2.30+ds1-1vulnerable
forky, sid1.2.30+ds1-3vulnerable

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
cactisource(unstable)(unfixed)

Notes

https://github.com/Cacti/cacti/security/advisories/GHSA-23g4-vf2j-94w4
https://github.com/Cacti/cacti/issues/7011
Fixed by: https://github.com/Cacti/cacti/commit/d2a698854956e9e4e53da9eab5b5719ae40e6893 (release/1.2.31)

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