CVE-2026-40080

Description

Cacti is an open source performance and fault management framework. Versions 1.2.30 and prior are vulnerable to Open Redirect through a substring check rather than a host check at str_contains($referer, CACTI_PATH_URL). When the user's login_opts == '1' (redirect to referer after login), the function used $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] directly. An attacker could craft a referer such as https://evil.com/cacti/. Where CACTI_PATH_URL is /cacti/, the substring matches and the user is redirected to evil.com after login. The pre-existing validate_redirect_url() helper at lib/html_utility.php performed proper validation but was not invoked from auth_login_redirect(). This issue has been fixed in version 1.2.31.

Weakness classification

• security-advisories@github.com: CWE-601

Primary references

• security-advisories@github.com — Product, Release Notes
• security-advisories@github.com — Exploit, Mitigation, Vendor Advisory
• 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 — Exploit, Mitigation, Vendor Advisory