QID 980006

QID 980006: Nodejs (npm) Security Update for @grafana/data (GHSA-3j9m-hcv9-rpj8)

Security update has been released for @grafana/data to fix the vulnerability.

Note: The preceding description block is extracted directly from the security advisory. Using automation, we have attempted to clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

If an attacker is able to convince a victim to visit a URL referencing a vulnerable page, arbitrary JavaScript content may be executed within the context of the victim's browser.

The user visiting the malicious link must be unauthenticated and the link must be for a page that contains the login button in the menu bar.

There are two ways an unauthenticated user can open a page in Grafana that contains the login button:
- Anonymous authentication is enabled. This means all pages in Grafana would be open for the attack.
- The link is to an unauthenticated page. The following pages are vulnerable:
- `/dashboard-solo/snapshot/*`
- `/dashboard/snapshot/*`
- `/invite/:code`

The url has to be crafted to exploit AngularJS rendering and contain the interpolation binding for AngularJS expressions. AngularJS uses double curly braces for interpolation binding: {{ }}

An example of an expression would be: `{{constructor.constructor(alert(1))()}}`. This can be included in the link URL like this:

https://play.grafana.org/dashboard/snapshot/%7B%7Bconstructor.constructor('alert(1)')()%7D%7D?orgId=1

When the user follows the link and the page renders, the login button will contain the original link with a query parameter to force a redirect to the login page. The URL is not validated and the AngularJS rendering engine will execute the JavaScript expression contained in the URL.

  • CVSS V3 rated as High - 6.1 severity.
  • CVSS V2 rated as Medium - 4.3 severity.
  • Solution
    Customers are advised to refer to GHSA-3j9m-hcv9-rpj8 for updates pertaining to this vulnerability.
    Vendor References

    CVEs related to QID 980006

    Software Advisories
    Advisory ID Software Component Link
    GHSA-3j9m-hcv9-rpj8 @grafana/data URL Logo github.com/advisories/GHSA-3j9m-hcv9-rpj8