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Medium RLSA-2021:1859 2 CVEs

Moderate: grafana security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Published May 18, 2021 · Updated Feb 5, 2026

Ecosystem: Rocky Linux

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 (7.3.6). (BZ#1850471)

Security Fix(es):

* crewjam/saml: authentication bypass in saml authentication (CVE-2020-27846)

* grafana: XSS via a query alias for the Elasticsearch and Testdata datasource (CVE-2020-24303)

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 Rocky Linux 8.4 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Rocky Linux · 8 grafana 0:7.3.6-2.el8

Vulnerabilities 2

  • Critical 9.8
    CVE-2020-27846

    XML Processing error in github.com/crewjam/saml

    A signature verification vulnerability exists in crewjam/saml. This flaw allows an attacker to bypass SAML Authentication. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality, integrity, as well as system availability.

    github.com/crewjam/saml Go
  • Medium 6.1
    CVE-2020-24303

    Grafana XSS via a query alias for the ElasticSearch datasource

    Grafana before 7.1.0-beta 1 allows XSS via a query alias for the ElasticSearch datasource.

    grafana github.com/grafana/grafana Ubuntu Go

References

  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1843170
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1850471
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1892418
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1907670
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1916083