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Medium CVE-2021-36157 EUVD-2021-2088GHSA-jphm-g89m-v42p

Path traversal in Grafana Cortex

Published Aug 3, 2021 · Updated Aug 4, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

Description

An issue was discovered in Grafana Cortex through 1.9.0. The header value X-Scope-OrgID is used to construct file paths for rules files, and if crafted to conduct directory traversal such as ae ../../sensitive/path/in/deployment pathname, then Cortex will attempt to parse a rules file at that location and include some of the contents in the error message. (Other Cortex API requests can also be sent a malicious OrgID header, e.g., tricking the ingester into writing metrics to a different location, but the effect is nuisance rather than information disclosure.)

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/cortexproject/cortex <= 1.9.0 — GHSA-jphm-g89m-v42p

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