glsa-202401-15.xml


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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="202401-15">
    <title>Prometheus SNMP Exporter: Basic Authentication Bypass</title>
    <synopsis>A vulnerability has been found in Prometheus SNMP Exporter which could allow for authentication bypass.</synopsis>
    <product type="ebuild">snmp_exporter</product>
    <announced>2024-01-12</announced>
    <revised count="1">2024-01-12</revised>
    <bug>883649</bug>
    <access>remote</access>
    <affected>
        <package name="app-metrics/snmp_exporter" auto="yes" arch="*">
            <unaffected range="ge">0.24.1</unaffected>
            <vulnerable range="lt">0.24.1</vulnerable>
        </package>
    </affected>
    <background>
        <p>The Prometheus SNMP Exporter is the recommended way to expose SNMP data in a format which Prometheus can ingest.</p>
    </background>
    <description>
        <p>A vulnerability has been discovered in Prometheus SNMP Exporter. Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details.</p>
    </description>
    <impact type="low">
        <p>A user who knows the password hash of a user capable of performing HTTP basic authentication with a vulnerable exporter can use the hash to successfully authenticate as that user via cache manipulation, without knowing the password from which the hash was derived.</p>
    </impact>
    <workaround>
        <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
    </workaround>
    <resolution>
        <p>All Prometheus SNMP Exporter users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
        
        <code>
          # emerge --sync
          # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-metrics/snmp_exporter-0.24.1"
        </code>
    </resolution>
    <references>
        <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-46146">CVE-2022-46146</uri>
    </references>
    <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2024-01-12T10:52:37.002879Z">ajak</metadata>
    <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2024-01-12T10:52:37.005288Z">graaff</metadata>
</glsa>