Threats / Cacti / CVE-2022-46169
CVE-2022-46169
· EUVD no mirror located
· GCVE no mirror located
Verified 2026-06-07
Cacti vulnerability
Cacti contains an unauthenticated command injection vulnerability allowing remote code execution. The flaw has been actively exploited in the wild.
Verdict
Today item — known-exploited.
An unauthenticated attacker can inject arbitrary commands through Cacti, achieving remote code execution without credentials. High EPSS score and confirmed wild exploitation indicate immediate risk to unpatched deployments.
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Is it exploitable?
— the evidence, ranked above the scoreExploited in the wild
Listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2023-02-16).
Probability (EPSS)
EPSS 0.94469 — modeled likelihood of exploitation activity.EPSS is a daily-changing model output — open the source for today's value.
Severity / affected
Affected: Cacti, Cacti. Confirm exact fixed builds in the vendor advisory.
Weakness (CWE)
Mapped to CWE-74 CWE-74 — weakness family: Injection.CWE assignment from the public NVD record; the weakness class drives how the flaw is exploited.
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Who’s exploiting it?
— attribution turns risk into urgencyAttribution not established
No threat-actor attribution is established from the public feed for this record. Absence of a named actor is not absence of compromise — see Coverage & confidence.
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Why it matters
— the attack path, told twice: adversary, then board1
Front door — unauthenticated access narrative 1
Attacker
I identify Cacti as exposed on the network and craft a malicious input to inject shell commands.
Business
Monitoring infrastructure becomes compromised, potentially affecting visibility across the entire IT environment.
2
Keys to the kingdom — privilege/identity takeover narrative 2
Attacker
I execute code with the privileges of the Cacti process to establish persistence and lateral movement.
Business
Attackers gain foothold for further network compromise, data exfiltration, or deployment of secondary payloads.
3
Lateral reach — past segmentation narrative 3
Attacker
I leverage the compromised Cacti instance to pivot to connected systems and databases.
Business
Critical infrastructure monitoring and control systems face unauthorized access and potential operational disruption.
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What to do
— defensible action- Remediate per the vendor advisory — confirm the fixed build for your version and verify exposure.1
Say it to the boardA vulnerability with this evidence profile is a defensible budget line, not a backlog ticket — fund the change against the proof above.
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Coverage & confidence
— what we know, and what we don’tEstablished (cited)
Coverage gaps — stated, not hidden
Disclosure & credit2
Catalogued by GitHub_MCNA
Credited with finding itNo finder named in the public CVE record — the work behind this find is unattributed.