VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2022-46146

CVSS score6.2 MEDIUM
EPSS probability1.26%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2022-11-29
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Description

Prometheus Exporter Toolkit is a utility package to build exporters. Prior to versions 0.7.2 and 0.8.2, if someone has access to a Prometheus web.yml file and users' bcrypted passwords, they can bypass security by poisoning the built-in authentication cache. Versions 0.7.2 and 0.8.2 contain a fix for the issue. There is no workaround, but attacker must have access to the hashed password to use this functionality.

Weakness classification

  • security-advisories@github.com: CWE-287

Primary references