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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.5

CVE-2022-23536 json

Alertmanager can expose local files content via specially crafted config

published 2022-12-19 3 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-cq2g-pw6q-hf7j , GO-2022-1175 , EUVD-2022-7604

cvss
6.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.8%
EPSS 0.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 57%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Cortex provides multi-tenant, long term storage for Prometheus. A local file inclusion vulnerability exists in Cortex versions 1.13.0, 1.13.1 and 1.14.0, where a malicious actor could remotely read local files as a result of parsing maliciously crafted Alertmanager configurations when submitted to the Alertmanager Set Configuration API. Only users of the Alertmanager service where `-experimental.alertmanager.enable-api` or `enable_api: true` is configured are affected. Affected Cortex users are advised to upgrade to patched versions 1.13.2 or 1.14.1. However as a workaround, Cortex administrators may reject Alertmanager configurations containing the `api_key_file` setting in the `opsgenie_configs` section before sending to the Set Alertmanager Configuration API.

Patch / fix

  • go github.com/cortexproject/cortex 1.13.2, 1.14.1

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-2022-23536 updated cvss 6.5

cortex: Alertmanager can expose local files content via specially crafted config

  • Red Hat Logging Subsystem for Red Hat OpenShift openshift-logging/logging-loki-rhel8 Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2 rhacm2/acm-grafana-rhel8, rhacm2/acm-prometheus-rhel8, rhacm2/rbac-query-proxy-rhel8, rhacm2/thanos-receive-controller-rhel8 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 grafana, grafana-loki, grafana-mssql, grafana-mysql, grafana-selinux, grafana-graphite, +8 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 grafana, grafana-selinux Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 openshift4/ose-grafana, openshift4/ose-thanos-rhel8, openshift4/ose-cluster-storage-operator, openshift4/ose-prometheus-rhel9-operator, openshift4/ose-cluster-monitoring-rhel9-operator Red Hat Openshift Container Storage 4 ocs4/mcg-rhel8-operator, ocs4/ocs-rhel8-operator, ocs4/rook-ceph-rhel8-operator
    +1 more products
    Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4 odf4/mcg-rhel9-operator, odf4/ocs-rhel9-operator, odf4/odf-rhel8-operator
    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

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
18 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.82% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 57% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/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

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
go github.com/cortexproject/cortex
>=1.14.0, <1.14.1
>=1.13.0, <1.13.2
1.14.1
1.13.2

Affected products

  • cortexproject cortex

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-73 External Control of File Name or Path
  • CWE-184 Incomplete List of Disallowed Inputs
  • CWE-641 Improper Restriction of Names for Files and Other Resources

References

Sources

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