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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.5

CVE-2019-19499 json

Grafana Arbitrary File Read

published 2020-08-28 6 y ago modified 2026-09-10 1 mo ago also GHSA-4pwp-cx67-5cpx , GO-2024-2661 , EUVD-2024-0252

cvss
6.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.5%
EPSS 3.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 89%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Grafana <= 6.4.3 has an Arbitrary File Read vulnerability, which could be exploited by an authenticated attacker that has privileges to modify the data source configurations.

Patch / fix

  • go github.com/grafana/grafana 6.4.4
  • grafana RHEL 8 6.7.4-3.el8
  • grafana-loki RHEL 8 6.7.4-3.el8
  • grafana-mssql RHEL 8 6.7.4-3.el8
  • grafana-mysql RHEL 8 6.7.4-3.el8
  • grafana-graphite RHEL 8 6.7.4-3.el8
  • grafana-influxdb RHEL 8 6.7.4-3.el8
  • grafana-opentsdb RHEL 8 6.7.4-3.el8
  • grafana-postgres RHEL 8 6.7.4-3.el8

red hat advisories RHSA-2020:4682

  • grafana Enterprise Storage 6 7.3.1-3.6.1
  • system-user-grafana Manager Client Tools 15, Enterprise Storage 6 1.0.0-3.9.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2021:1233-1

  • grafana AlmaLinux 8 6.7.4-3.el8
  • grafana-loki AlmaLinux 8 6.7.4-3.el8
  • grafana-mssql AlmaLinux 8 6.7.4-3.el8
  • grafana-mysql AlmaLinux 8 6.7.4-3.el8
  • grafana-graphite AlmaLinux 8 6.7.4-3.el8
  • grafana-influxdb AlmaLinux 8 6.7.4-3.el8
  • grafana-opentsdb AlmaLinux 8 6.7.4-3.el8
  • grafana-postgres AlmaLinux 8 6.7.4-3.el8

almalinux advisories ALSA-2020:4682

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2019-19499 updated cvss 6.5

grafana: arbitrary file read via MySQL data source

  • Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 1 servicemesh-grafana, servicemesh-grafana-prometheus
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat Ceph Storage 2 grafana
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Ceph Storage 3 grafana, grafana-container Red Hat Ceph Storage 4 rhceph/rhceph-4-dashboard-rhel8 Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11 openshift3/grafana Red Hat Storage 3 grafana
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) grafana 6.7.4-3.el8, grafana-loki 6.7.4-3.el8, grafana-mssql 6.7.4-3.el8, grafana-mysql 6.7.4-3.el8, grafana-graphite 6.7.4-3.el8, grafana-influxdb 6.7.4-3.el8, +7 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2020:4682
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 openshift4/ose-grafana
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

3.52% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 89% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • swarm.ptsecurity.com https://swarm.ptsecurity.com/grafana-6-4-3-arbitrary-file-read/ referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 4.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N
GitHub 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N/E:P

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
go github.com/grafana/grafana
<6.4.4
all versions
6.4.4

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-89 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command
  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory

References

Sources

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