Medium severity · published Dec 19, 2022
CVE-2022-23536
Cortex provides multi-tenant, long term storage for Prometheus
6.5
CVSS
0.8%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Cortex provides multi-tenant, long term storage for Prometheus. A local file inclusion vulnerability exists in Cortex versions 1.13.0, 1.13.1 and 1.14.0, where a malicious actor could remotely read local files as a result of parsing maliciously crafted Alertmanager configurations when submitted to the Alertmanager Set Configuration API. Only users of the Alertmanager service where `-experimental.alertmanager.enable-api` or `enable_api: true` is configured are affected. Affected Cortex users are advised to upgrade to patched versions 1.13.2 or 1.14.1. However as a workaround, Cortex administrators may reject Alertmanager configurations containing the `api_key_file` setting in the `opsgenie_configs` section before sending to the Set Alertmanager Configuration API.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.8% · higher than 57% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
CO
Cortex · Linuxfoundation
1.13.0; 1.13.1; 1.14.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-23536
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-23536
Vendor Advisory
https://cortexmetrics.io/docs/api/#set-alertmanager-configuration
Release Notes
https://github.com/cortexproject/cortex/releases/tag/v1.13.2
Release Notes
https://github.com/cortexproject/cortex/releases/tag/v1.14.1
Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/cortexproject/cortex/security/advisories/GHSA-cq2g-pw6q-hf7j
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