CVE-2026-40080CWE-601

Cacti: Open Redirect via HTTP_REFERER substring check in auth_login_redirect

Medium · published June 25, 2026

CVSS v3.1
6.1
EPSS
0%
Percentile
16.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
6.1 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00257 · 16.4th percentile
Weakness
CWE-601 · URL Redirection to Untrusted Site ('Open Redirect')
Published
2026-06-25T22:29Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 25 JUN 22:29Z
    Cacti: Open Redirect via HTTP_REFERER substring check in auth_login_redirect
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