CVE-2019-19499 Grafana Arbitrary File Read

What is CVE-2019-19499?

CVE-2019-19499 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Grafana Grafana, published on 28 Aug 2020. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Grafana <= 6.4.3 has an Arbitrary File Read vulnerability, which could be exploited by an authenticated attacker that has privileges to modify the data source configurations.

Weakness: CWE-89

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-19499?

3 open source packages ship an affected version, including github.com/grafana/grafana. It affects 1 product.

Products include Grafana Grafana.

How do I fix CVE-2019-19499?

Upgrade github.com/grafana/grafana to 6.4.4 or later.

Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.

Is CVE-2019-19499 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-19499 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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