Metric corruption via locale-sensitive float serialization
Published Jun 24, 2026 · Updated Jun 24, 2026
Data corruption in Cacti 1.2.30 and earlier allows attackers to misplace or drop RRDtool metrics through a comma-decimal server locale. The rrdtool_function_update() poller path accepts numeric floats and appends their locale-sensitive PHP string casts directly to an RRDtool update command. Reachability requires the poller process to use an LC_NUMERIC locale that casts floats with commas; the bounded result is corrupted, shifted, or missing metric data.
Summary
What happened
Data corruption in Cacti 1.2.30 and earlier allows attackers to misplace or drop RRDtool metrics through a comma-decimal server locale. The rrdtool_function_update() poller path accepts numeric floats and appends their locale-sensitive PHP string casts directly to an RRDtool update command. Reachability requires the poller process to use an LC_NUMERIC locale that casts floats with commas; the bounded result is corrupted, shifted, or missing metric data.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-39894
- Published
- Jun 24, 2026
- Updated
- Jun 24, 2026
- Vendor
- The Cacti Group
- Product
- Cacti
- Classifications
- CWE-474
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
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- Jun 24, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Jun 24, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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