Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-201908-21

Severity: Medium
Date : 2019-08-30
CVE-ID : CVE-2019-15043
Package : grafana
Type : denial of service
Remote : Yes
Link : https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-1034

Summary

The package grafana before version 6.3.4-1 is vulnerable to denial of
service.

Resolution

Upgrade to 6.3.4-1.

pacman -Syu “grafana>=6.3.4-1”

The problem has been fixed upstream in version 6.3.4.

Workaround

None.

Description

This vulnerability allows any unauthenticated user/client to access the
Grafana snapshot HTTP API and create a denial of service attack by
posting large amounts of dashboard snapshot payloads to the
/api/snapshotsHTTP API endpoint.

Impact

A remote attacker is able to cause a denial of service by sending a
specially crafted request.

References

https://grafana.com/blog/2019/08/29/grafana-5.4.5-and-6.3.4-released-with-important-security-fix/
https://github.com/grafana/grafana/commit/be2e2330f5c1f92082841d7eb13c5583143963a4
https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2019-15043