x/vulndb: potential Go vuln in github.com/prometheus/alertmanager: CVE-2023-40577

[GoVulnBot]

CVE-2023-40577 references github.com/prometheus/alertmanager, which may be a Go module.

Description:
Alertmanager handles alerts sent by client applications such as the Prometheus server. An attacker with the permission to perform POST requests on the /api/v1/alerts endpoint could be able to execute arbitrary JavaScript code on the users of Prometheus Alertmanager. This issue has been fixed in Alertmanager version 0.2.51.

References:

• NIST: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-40577
• JSON: https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelist/tree/939452510307cae47f695ed7ed405700b6ca6d32/2023/40xxx/CVE-2023-40577.json
• advisory: GHSA-v86x-5fm3-5p7j
• Imported by: https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/prometheus/alertmanager?tab=importedby

Cross references:
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modules:
    - module: github.com/prometheus/alertmanager
      vulnerable_at: 0.26.0
      packages:
        - package: alertmanager
description: |-
    Alertmanager handles alerts sent by client applications such as the Prometheus
    server. An attacker with the permission to perform POST requests on the
    /api/v1/alerts endpoint could be able to execute arbitrary JavaScript code on
    the users of Prometheus Alertmanager. This issue has been fixed in Alertmanager
    version 0.2.51.
cves:
    - CVE-2023-40577
references:
    - advisory: https://github.com/prometheus/alertmanager/security/advisories/GHSA-v86x-5fm3-5p7j

[tatianab]

Duplicate of #2020