CVE-2021-43813

medium

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.

References

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220107-0006/

https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/release-notes/release-notes-8-3-2/

https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/release-notes/release-notes-7-5-12/

https://grafana.com/blog/2021/12/10/grafana-8.3.2-and-7.5.12-released-with-moderate-severity-security-fix/

https://github.com/grafana/grafana/security/advisories/GHSA-c3q8-26ph-9g2q

https://github.com/grafana/grafana/commit/fd48aee61e4328aae8d5303a9efd045fa0ca308d

https://github.com/github/securitylab-vulnerabilities/commit/689fc5d9fd665be4d5bba200a6a433b532172d0f

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/12/10/4

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2021-12-10

Updated: 2022-03-31

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium