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Grafana path traversal

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published Dec 7, 2021 in grafana/grafana

Package

gomod github.com/grafana/grafana (Go)

Affected versions

>= 8.3.0, < 8.3.1
>= 8.2.0, < 8.2.7
>= 8.1.0, < 8.1.8
>= 8.0.0-beta1, < 8.0.7

Patched versions

8.3.1
8.2.7
8.1.8
8.0.7

Description

Today we are releasing Grafana 8.3.1, 8.2.7, 8.1.8, 8.0.7. This patch release includes a high severity security fix that affects Grafana versions from v8.0.0-beta1 through v8.3.0.

Release v8.3.1, only containing a security fix:

Release v8.2.7, only containing a security fix:

Release v8.1.8, only containing a security fix:

Release v8.0.7, only containing a security fix:

Path Traversal (CVE-2021-43798)

Summary

On 2021-12-03, we received a report that Grafana is vulnerable to directory traversal, allowing access to local files. We have confirmed this for versions 8.0.0-beta1 to 8.3.0. Thanks to our defense-in-depth approach, at no time has Grafana Cloud been vulnerable.

The vulnerable URL path is: <grafana_host_url>/public/plugins//, where is the plugin ID for any installed plugin.

Every Grafana instance comes with pre-installed plugins like the Prometheus plugin or MySQL plugin so the following URLs are vulnerable for every instance:

  • <grafana_host_url>/public/plugins/alertlist/
  • <grafana_host_url>/public/plugins/annolist/
  • <grafana_host_url>/public/plugins/barchart/
  • <grafana_host_url>/public/plugins/bargauge/
  • <grafana_host_url>/public/plugins/candlestick/
  • <grafana_host_url>/public/plugins/cloudwatch/
  • <grafana_host_url>/public/plugins/dashlist/
  • <grafana_host_url>/public/plugins/elasticsearch/
  • <grafana_host_url>/public/plugins/gauge/
  • <grafana_host_url>/public/plugins/geomap/
  • <grafana_host_url>/public/plugins/gettingstarted/
  • <grafana_host_url>/public/plugins/grafana-azure-monitor-datasource/
  • <grafana_host_url>/public/plugins/graph/
  • <grafana_host_url>/public/plugins/heatmap/
  • <grafana_host_url>/public/plugins/histogram/
  • <grafana_host_url>/public/plugins/influxdb/
  • <grafana_host_url>/public/plugins/jaeger/
  • <grafana_host_url>/public/plugins/logs/
  • <grafana_host_url>/public/plugins/loki/
  • <grafana_host_url>/public/plugins/mssql/
  • <grafana_host_url>/public/plugins/mysql/
  • <grafana_host_url>/public/plugins/news/
  • <grafana_host_url>/public/plugins/nodeGraph/
  • <grafana_host_url>/public/plugins/opentsdb
  • <grafana_host_url>/public/plugins/piechart/
  • <grafana_host_url>/public/plugins/pluginlist/
  • <grafana_host_url>/public/plugins/postgres/
  • <grafana_host_url>/public/plugins/prometheus/
  • <grafana_host_url>/public/plugins/stackdriver/
  • <grafana_host_url>/public/plugins/stat/
  • <grafana_host_url>/public/plugins/state-timeline/
  • <grafana_host_url>/public/plugins/status-history/
  • <grafana_host_url>/public/plugins/table/
  • <grafana_host_url>/public/plugins/table-old/
  • <grafana_host_url>/public/plugins/tempo/
  • <grafana_host_url>/public/plugins/testdata/
  • <grafana_host_url>/public/plugins/text/
  • <grafana_host_url>/public/plugins/timeseries/
  • <grafana_host_url>/public/plugins/welcome/
  • <grafana_host_url>/public/plugins/zipkin/

We have received CVE-2021-43798 for this issue. The CVSS score for this vulnerability is 7.5 High (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N) for Grafana versions 8.0.0-beta1 to 8.3.0

Affected versions with high severity

Grafana 8.0.0-beta1 to 8.3.0

Solutions and mitigations

All installations between v8.0.0-beta1 and v8.3.0 should be upgraded as soon as possible.

If you can not upgrade, running a reverse proxy in front of Grafana that normalizes the PATH of the request will mitigate the vulnerability. For example the normalize_path setting in envoy.

Thanks to our defense-in-depth approach, Grafana Cloud instances have not been affected by the vulnerability.

As always, we closely coordinated with all cloud providers licensed to offer Grafana Pro. They have received early notification under embargo and confirmed that their offerings are secure at the time of this announcement. In alphabetical order, this is applicable to Amazon Managed Grafana, and Azure Managed Grafana.

Timeline and postmortem

Here is a detailed timeline starting from when we originally learned of the issue. All times in UTC.

  • 2021-12-03: Security researcher sends the initial report
  • 2021-12-03: Confirmed for 8.0.0-beta1 through 8.3.0
  • 2021-12-03: Confirmed that Grafana Cloud is not vulnerable
  • 2021-12-03: Security fix determined and committed to Git
  • 2021-12-03: Release timeline determined: 2021-12-07 for private customer release, 2021-12-14 for public release
  • 2021-12-06: Second report about the vulnerability received
  • 2021-12-07: We received information that the vulnerability has been leaked to the public, turning it into a 0 day
  • 2021-12-07: Decision made to release as quickly as feasible
  • 2021-12-07: Private release with reduced two hour grace period instead of the usual 1 week
  • 2021-12-07: Public release

Acknowledgements

We would like to thank Jordy Versmissen for finding the vulnerability and alerting us to it.

Reporting security Issues

If you think you have found a security vulnerability, please send a report to security@grafana.com. This address can be used for all of
Grafana Labs' open source and commercial products (including but not limited to Grafana, Grafana Cloud, Grafana Enterprise, and grafana.com). We can accept only vulnerability reports at this address. We would prefer that you encrypt your message to us by using our PGP key. The key fingerprint is

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The key is available from keyserver.ubuntu.com.

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References

@RichiH RichiH published to grafana/grafana Dec 7, 2021
Published by the National Vulnerability Database Dec 7, 2021
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Feb 1, 2024
Reviewed Feb 1, 2024

Severity

High

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

EPSS score

97.419%
(100th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2021-43798

GHSA ID

GHSA-8pjx-jj86-j47p

Source code

No known source code

Credits

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