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Medium ALSA-2020:4682 8 CVEs

Moderate: grafana security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Published Nov 3, 2020 · Updated Oct 29, 2026

Ecosystem: AlmaLinux

Summary

Grafana is an open source, feature rich metrics dashboard and graph editor for Graphite, InfluxDB & OpenTSDB.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: grafana (6.7.4). (BZ#1807323)

Security Fix(es):

* grafana: XSS vulnerability via a column style on the "Dashboard > Table Panel" screen (CVE-2018-18624)

* grafana: arbitrary file read via MySQL data source (CVE-2019-19499)

* grafana: stored XSS (CVE-2020-11110)

* grafana: XSS annotation popup vulnerability (CVE-2020-12052)

* grafana: XSS via column.title or cellLinkTooltip (CVE-2020-12245)

* grafana: information disclosure through world-readable /var/lib/grafana/grafana.db (CVE-2020-12458)

* grafana: information disclosure through world-readable grafana configuration files (CVE-2020-12459)

* grafana: XSS via the OpenTSDB datasource (CVE-2020-13430)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the AlmaLinux Release Notes linked from the References section.

Fixed packages 13

ReleasePackageFixed in
AlmaLinux · 8 grafana 6.7.4-3.el8
AlmaLinux · 8 grafana-azure-monitor 6.7.4-3.el8
AlmaLinux · 8 grafana-cloudwatch 6.7.4-3.el8
AlmaLinux · 8 grafana-elasticsearch 6.7.4-3.el8
AlmaLinux · 8 grafana-graphite 6.7.4-3.el8
AlmaLinux · 8 grafana-influxdb 6.7.4-3.el8
AlmaLinux · 8 grafana-loki 6.7.4-3.el8
AlmaLinux · 8 grafana-mssql 6.7.4-3.el8
AlmaLinux · 8 grafana-mysql 6.7.4-3.el8
AlmaLinux · 8 grafana-opentsdb 6.7.4-3.el8
AlmaLinux · 8 grafana-postgres 6.7.4-3.el8
AlmaLinux · 8 grafana-prometheus 6.7.4-3.el8
AlmaLinux · 8 grafana-stackdriver 6.7.4-3.el8

Vulnerabilities 8

  • Medium 6.5
    CVE-2019-19499

    Grafana Arbitrary File Read

    Grafana <= 6.4.3 has an Arbitrary File Read vulnerability, which could be exploited by an authenticated attacker that has privileges to modify the data source configurations.

    grafana github.com/grafana/grafana Ubuntu Go
  • Medium 6.1
    CVE-2018-18624

    Grafana XSS via a column style

    Grafana 5.3.1 has XSS via a column style on the "Dashboard > Table Panel" screen. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2018-12099.

    grafana github.com/grafana/grafana Ubuntu Go
  • Medium 6.1
    CVE-2020-12245

    Grafana XSS in header column rename

    Grafana before 6.7.3 allows table-panel XSS via column.title or cellLinkTooltip.

    grafana github.com/grafana/grafana Ubuntu Go
  • Medium 6.1
    CVE-2020-13430

    Grafana XSS via the OpenTSDB datasource

    Grafana before 7.0.0 allows tag value XSS via the OpenTSDB datasource.

    grafana github.com/grafana/grafana Ubuntu Go
  • Medium 5.5
    CVE-2020-12458

    Grafana information disclosure

    An information-disclosure flaw was found in Grafana through 6.7.3. The database directory /var/lib/grafana and database file /var/lib/grafana/grafana.db are world readable. This can result in exposure of sensitive information (e.g., cleartext or encrypted dat…

    grafana github.com/grafana/grafana Ubuntu Go
  • Medium 5.5
    CVE-2020-12459

    Grafana world readable configuration files

    In certain Red Hat packages for Grafana 6.x through 6.3.6, the configuration files /etc/grafana/grafana.ini and /etc/grafana/ldap.toml (which contain a secret_key and a bind_password) are world readable.

    github.com/grafana/grafana Go
  • Medium 5.4
    CVE-2020-11110 Public exploit Scanner template

    Grafana stored XSS

    Grafana through 6.7.1 allows stored XSS due to insufficient input protection in the originalUrl field, which allows an attacker to inject JavaScript code that will be executed after clicking on Open Original Dashboard after visiting the snapshot.

    grafana github.com/grafana/grafana Ubuntu Go
  • Unscored —
    CVE-2020-12052

    Grafana version < 6.7.3 is vulnerable for annotation popup XSS.

    grafana Ubuntu

References

  • report
    https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2018-18624
  • report
    https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2019-19499
  • report
    https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2020-11110
  • report
    https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2020-12052
  • report
    https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2020-12245
  • report
    https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2020-12458
  • report
    https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2020-12459
  • report
    https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2020-13430