Security Bulletin: IBM Storage Ceph is vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting in Grafana (CVE-2022-21702 )

Summary

Grafana is used by IBM Storage Ceph as part of the dashboard to monitor the stats for each cluster. CVE-2022-21702

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2022-21702
**DESCRIPTION:**Grafana is vulnerable to cross-site scripting, caused by improper validation of user-supplied input by the Grafana datasource or plugin proxy. A remote authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability using a specially-crafted URL to execute script in a victim’s Web browser within the security context of the hosting Web site, once the URL is clicked. An attacker could use this vulnerability to steal the victim’s cookie-based authentication credentials.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/219281 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now.
Download the latest version of IBM Storage Ceph and upgrade to 6.1 by following instructions.

<https://public.dhe.ibm.com/ibmdl/export/pub/storage/ceph/&gt;
<https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/storage-ceph/6?topic=upgrading&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None