Introduce more secure location of PHP script configs to harden a Cacti setup (CVE-2014-2569)

Bug #1295006 reported by Roman Vynar
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Percona Monitoring Plugins
Fix Released
High
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Bug Description

/usr/share/cacti/scripts/ or /usr/share/cacti/site/scripts/ are not secure locations for the configs containing MySQL password. Let's allow for /etc/cacti/ as the better choice. Also let's add "Hardening Cacti Setup" guide.

Also to address CVE-2014-2569.

Tags: cacti security
Changed in percona-monitoring-plugins:
importance: Undecided → High
milestone: none → 1.1.3
tags: added: cacti security
Changed in percona-monitoring-plugins:
status: New → In Progress
Changed in percona-monitoring-plugins:
status: In Progress → Fix Released
summary: Introduce more secure location of PHP script configs to harden a Cacti
- setup
+ setup (CVE-2014-2569)
description: updated
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