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GHSA-CHQX-36RM-RF8H

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-09-25 18:31 – Updated: 2024-10-09 22:05

Summary

Grafana Alloy on Windows has Unquoted Search Path or Element vulnerability

Details

Unquoted Search Path or Element vulnerability in Grafana Alloy on Windows allows Privilege Escalation from Local User to SYSTEM. This issue affects Alloy: before 1.3.4, from 1.4.0-rc.0 and prior to 1.4.1.

Severity

7.3 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

4.0 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U

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CVE-2024-8975 (GCVE-0-2024-8975)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-09-25 16:42 – Updated: 2024-09-26 16:22

Title

Grafana Alloy on Windows Unquoted service path

Summary

Unquoted Search Path or Element vulnerability in Grafana Alloy on Windows allows Privilege Escalation from Local User to SYSTEM This issue affects Alloy: before 1.3.3, from 1.4.0-rc.0 through 1.4.0-rc.1.

Severity

7.3 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-09-25 17:41 UTC

CWE

CWE-428 - Unquoted Search Path or Element

Assigner

GRAFANA CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard C 71/100 over 56 records in the last 180 days details

References

4 references

URL	Tags
https://grafana.com/security/security-advisories/…
https://grafana.com/blog/2024/09/25/grafana-alloy…
https://github.com/grafana/alloy/releases/tag/v1.4.1
https://github.com/grafana/alloy/releases/tag/v1.3.4

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Grafana	Alloy	Affected: 0 , < 1.3.3 (semver) Affected: 1.4.0-rc.0 , ≤ 1.4.0-rc.1 (semver)
grafana	alloy	Affected: 0 , < 1.3.3 (semver) Affected: 1.4.0-rc.0 , ≤ 1.4.0-rc.1 (semver) cpe:2.3:a:grafana:alloy::::::::

Date Public

2024-09-25 13:40

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