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Grafana Plugin SDK Information Leakage Vulnerabilty - 20240924001

Overview

The WA SOC has been made aware of a vulnerability affecting Grafana.

The Grafana plugin SDK bundles build metadata into the binaries it compiles; this metadata includes the repository URI for the plugin being built, as retrieved by running git remote get-url origin. If credentials are included in the repository URI (for instance, to allow for fetching of private dependencies), the final binary will contain the full URI, including said credentials.

What is vulnerable?

Product(s) Affected Version(s) CVE CVSS Severity
Grafana Plugin SDK all versions \<= 0.249.0 CVE-2024-8986 9.1 Critical

What has been observed?

There is no evidence of exploitation affecting Western Australian Government networks at the time of publishing.

Recommendation

The WA SOC recommends administrators apply the solutions as per vendor instructions to all affected devices within expected timeframe of 48 hours (refer Patch Management):

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