Security Bulletin: IBM Storage Ceph is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in Grafana (CVE-2022-21703)

Summary

Grafana is used by IBM Storage Ceph as part of the dashboard to monitor the stats for each cluster. CVE-2022-21703

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2022-21703
**DESCRIPTION:**Grafana is vulnerable to cross-site request forgery, caused by improper validation of user-supplied input. By persuading an authenticated user to visit a malicious Web site, a remote authenticated attacker could send a malformed HTTP request to create a new administrator account. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to perform cross-site scripting attacks, Web cache poisoning, and other malicious activities.
CVSS Base score: 6.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/219280 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/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