Medium severity · published Dec 10, 2021
CVE-2021-43813
Grafana is an open-source platform for monitoring and observability
4.3
CVSS
57.1%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Grafana is an open-source platform for monitoring and observability. Grafana prior to versions 8.3.2 and 7.5.12 contains a directory traversal vulnerability for fully lowercase or fully uppercase .md files. The vulnerability is limited in scope, and only allows access to files with the extension .md to authenticated users only. Grafana Cloud instances have not been affected by the vulnerability. Users should upgrade to patched versions 8.3.2 or 7.5.12. For users who cannot upgrade, running a reverse proxy in front of Grafana that normalizes the PATH of the request will mitigate the vulnerability. The proxy will have to also be able to handle url encoded paths. Alternatively, for fully lowercase or fully uppercase .md files, users can block /api/plugins/.*/markdown/.* without losing any functionality beyond inlined plugin help text.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)57.1% · higher than 99% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
GR
Grafana · Grafana
5.0.0 before 7.5.12; 8.0.0 before 8.3.2 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-43813
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-43813
Mailing List
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/12/10/4
Broken Link
https://github.com/github/securitylab-vulnerabilities/commit/689fc5d9fd665be4d5bba200a6a433b532172d0f
Patch
https://github.com/grafana/grafana/commit/fd48aee61e4328aae8d5303a9efd045fa0ca308d
Patch
https://github.com/grafana/grafana/security/advisories/GHSA-c3q8-26ph-9g2q
Patch
https://grafana.com/blog/2021/12/10/grafana-8.3.2-and-7.5.12-released-with-moderate-severity-security-fix/
Release Notes
https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/release-notes/release-notes-7-5-12/
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