Unprotected storage of credentials in Grafana - CVE-2019-15635

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Unprotected storage of credentials in Grafana - CVE-2019-15635

Published: September 20, 2019


Vulnerability identifier: #VU21237
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.3 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-15635
CWE-ID: CWE-256
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a local user to gain access to sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to an error in encrypt-datasource-passwords data migration command that failed to encrypt user credentials for various data sources. A local user can view migration settings and reveal database credentials.

Note, this vulnerability can be exploited via Grafana web UI by pressing the "Save and test" button within a data source's settings menu.


Affected software

Grafana
Gentoo Linux
Amazon Linux AMI
Opensuse

How to mitigate CVE-2019-15635

Install updates from vendor's website.

Grafana - update to 6.3.0

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