CWE
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Advisory Published
Advisory Published

RHSA-2021:1859: Moderate: grafana security, bug fix, and enhancement update

First published: Tue May 18 2021(Updated: )

Grafana is an open source, feature rich metrics dashboard and graph editor for Graphite, InfluxDB &amp; OpenTSDB. <br>The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: grafana (7.3.6). (BZ#1850471)<br>Security Fix(es):<br><li> crewjam/saml: authentication bypass in saml authentication (CVE-2020-27846)</li> <li> grafana: XSS via a query alias for the Elasticsearch and Testdata datasource (CVE-2020-24303)</li> For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.<br>Additional Changes:<br>For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
redhat/grafana<7.3.6-2.el8
7.3.6-2.el8
redhat/grafana<7.3.6-2.el8
7.3.6-2.el8
redhat/grafana-debuginfo<7.3.6-2.el8
7.3.6-2.el8
redhat/grafana-debuginfo<7.3.6-2.el8
7.3.6-2.el8
redhat/grafana<7.3.6-2.el8
7.3.6-2.el8
redhat/grafana-debuginfo<7.3.6-2.el8
7.3.6-2.el8
redhat/grafana<7.3.6-2.el8.aa
7.3.6-2.el8.aa
redhat/grafana-debuginfo<7.3.6-2.el8.aa
7.3.6-2.el8.aa

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Frequently Asked Questions

  • What is the vulnerability associated with RHSA-2021:1859?

    The vulnerability associated with RHSA-2021:1859 involves an authentication bypass in the Grafana component, specifically in the crewjam/saml library.

  • What versions of Grafana are affected by RHSA-2021:1859?

    RHSA-2021:1859 affects Grafana versions prior to 7.3.6-2.el8.

  • How do I fix the vulnerability identified in RHSA-2021:1859?

    To fix the vulnerability identified in RHSA-2021:1859, update Grafana to version 7.3.6-2.el8 or later.

  • What security risk does RHSA-2021:1859 pose?

    RHSA-2021:1859 poses a significant security risk as it allows unauthorized access to systems due to the authentication bypass.

  • Are there any additional packages affected by RHSA-2021:1859?

    Yes, RHSA-2021:1859 also affects the grafana-debuginfo package associated with the affected Grafana version.

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