Cross-site Scripting (XSS) Affecting prometheus-elasticsearch-exporter-fips package, versions <1.6.0-r1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Snyk's Security Team recommends NVD's CVSS assessment

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.08% (35th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-CHAINGUARDLATEST-PROMETHEUSELASTICSEARCHEXPORTERFIPS-5964268
  • published 21 Aug 2023
  • disclosed 2 Aug 2023

How to fix?

Upgrade Chainguard prometheus-elasticsearch-exporter-fips to version 1.6.0-r1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream prometheus-elasticsearch-exporter-fips package and not the prometheus-elasticsearch-exporter-fips package as distributed by Chainguard. See How to fix? for Chainguard relevant fixed versions and status.

Text nodes not in the HTML namespace are incorrectly literally rendered, causing text which should be escaped to not be. This could lead to an XSS attack.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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NVD

Recommended
6.1 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    Required
  • Scope (S)
    Changed
  • Confidentiality (C)
    Low
  • Integrity (I)
    Low
  • Availability (A)
    None
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Red Hat

6.1 medium