ArchLinux: 202112-12: grafana-agent: information disclosure
Summary
A security issue has been found in Grafana Agent before version 0.21.2.
Some inline secrets are exposed in plaintext over the Grafana Agent
HTTP server:
- Inline secrets for metrics instance configs in the base YAML file are
exposed at /-/config
- Inline secrets for integrations are exposed at /-/config
- Inline secrets for Consul ACL tokens and ETCD basic auth when
configured for the scraping service at /-/config.
- Inline secrets for the Kafka receiver for OpenTelemetry-Collector
tracing at /-/config.
- Inline secrets for metrics instance configs loaded from the scraping
service are exposed at /agent/api/v1/configs/{name}.
Inline secrets will be exposed to anyone being able to reach these
endpoints.
Secrets found in these sections are used for:
- Delivering metrics to a Prometheus Remote Write system
- Authenticating against a system for discovering Prometheus targets
- Authenticating against a system for collecting metrics
(scrape_configs and integrations)
- Authenticating against a Consul or ETCD for storing configurations to
distribute in scraping service mode
- Authenticating against Kafka for receiving traces
Non-inlined secrets, such as *_file-based secrets, are not impacted by
this vulnerability.
Resolution
Upgrade to 0.21.2-1.
# pacman -Syu "grafana-agent>=0.21.2-1"
The problem has been fixed upstream in version 0.21.2.
References
https://github.com/grafana/agent/security/advisories/GHSA-9c4x-5hgq-q3wh https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2021-41090
Workaround
None.