Vulnerabilities > CVE-2021-31232 - Unspecified vulnerability in Linuxfoundation Cortex
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
LOW Confidentiality impact
HIGH Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
NONE Summary
The Alertmanager in CNCF Cortex before 1.8.1 has a local file disclosure vulnerability when -experimental.alertmanager.enable-api is used. The HTTP basic auth password_file can be used as an attack vector to send any file content via a webhook. The alertmanager templates can be used as an attack vector to send any file content because the alertmanager can load any text file specified in the templates list.
Vulnerable Configurations
References
- https://community.grafana.com/c/security-announcements
- https://community.grafana.com/c/security-announcements
- https://github.com/cortexproject/cortex
- https://github.com/cortexproject/cortex
- https://github.com/cortexproject/cortex/pull/4129/files
- https://github.com/cortexproject/cortex/pull/4129/files
- https://lists.cncf.io/g/cortex-users/message/50
- https://lists.cncf.io/g/cortex-users/message/50