CVE-2022-46146 (GCVE-0-2022-46146)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-11-29 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-03 14:24
VLAI
Title
Prometheus Exporter Toolkit vulnerable to basic authentication bypass
Summary
Prometheus Exporter Toolkit is a utility package to build exporters. Prior to versions 0.7.2 and 0.8.2, if someone has access to a Prometheus web.yml file and users' bcrypted passwords, they can bypass security by poisoning the built-in authentication cache. Versions 0.7.2 and 0.8.2 contain a fix for the issue. There is no workaround, but attacker must have access to the hashed password to use this functionality.
Severity
6.2 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-303 - Incorrect Implementation of Authentication Algorithm
  • CWE-287 - Improper Authentication
Assigner
GitHub_M CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard C 72/100 over 7658 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
prometheus exporter-toolkit Affected: < 0.7.2
Affected: >= 0.8.0, < 0.8.2
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