Security Bulletin: IBM Storage Ceph is vulnerable to the Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor in Grafana (CVE-2022-23498)

Summary

Grafana is used by IBM Storage Ceph as a metrics dashboard. This bulletin identifies the steps to take to address the vulnerability in Grafana. CVE-2022-23498

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2022-23498
**DESCRIPTION:**Grafana could allow a remote authenticated attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a flaw when datasource query caching is enabled. By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information, and use this information to launch further attacks against the affected system.
CVSS Base score: 7.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/246303 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L)

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