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Moderate severityNVD Advisory· Published Nov 29, 2022· Updated Aug 3, 2024

Prometheus Exporter Toolkit vulnerable to basic authentication bypass

CVE-2022-46146

Description

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.

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Affected packages

Versions sourced from the GitHub Security Advisory.

PackageAffected versionsPatched versions
github.com/prometheus/exporter-toolkitGo
< 0.7.20.7.2
github.com/prometheus/exporter-toolkitGo
>= 0.8.0, < 0.8.20.8.2

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