# CVE-2026-39894: Cacti: RRDtool metric shift via LC\_NUMERIC locale comma decimal formatting

- Severity: CVSS 2.9 (Low), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.2.31
- Published: 2026-06-24 · Updated: 2026-06-25

## Affected

- cacti: fixed in 1.2.31

## Description

Cacti is an open source performance and fault management framework. In versions 1.2.30 and below, the locale-dependent decimal formatting in rrdtool_function_update() can corrupt RRDtool metric values. The rrdtool_function_update() function checks metric values with is_numeric() and concatenates them into the RRDtool update command via PHP string interpolation. PHP's string cast of floats is locale-sensitive: if LC_NUMERIC uses comma as decimal separator (e.g., de_DE), a value of 1.5 becomes "1,5". RRDtool expects . as decimal separator, causing metric data to shift into wrong columns or be silently dropped. No setlocale() reset is present in the update path. This causes a data integrity issue, but is not remotely exploitable; it requires server locale misconfiguration. The issue has been fixed in version 1.2.31.

## What to do

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## References

- https://github.com/Cacti/cacti/security/advisories/GHSA-23g4-vf2j-94w4
- https://github.com/Cacti/cacti/issues/7011
- https://github.com/Cacti/cacti/commit/d2a698854956e9e4e53da9eab5b5719ae40e6893

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