SB2019063002 - Cross-site scripting in Grafana

Description

This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.

1) Cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-13068)

The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data in public/app/features/panel/panel_ctrl.ts when processing data passed via "Title", "Dashboard", and "url" fields. A remote authenticated user can inject and execute arbitrary HTML code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.

Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References

• https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/17718
• https://github.com/grafana/grafana/releases/tag/v6.2.5