{"id":"CVE-2026-40080","aliases":["DEBIAN-CVE-2026-40080","EUVD-2026-39585","GHSA-6gr7-53g8-vchq","UBUNTU-CVE-2026-40080"],"status":"published","title":"Cacti: Open Redirect via HTTP_REFERER substring check in auth_login_redirect","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 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