CVE-2021-41090

MEDIUM

Grafana Agent <0.20.1-0.21.2 - Info Disclosure

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Grafana Agent is a telemetry collector for sending metrics, logs, and trace data to the opinionated Grafana observability stack. Prior to versions 0.20.1 and 0.21.2, inline secrets defined within a metrics instance config are exposed in plaintext over two endpoints: metrics instance configs defined in the base YAML file are exposed at `/-/config` and metrics instance configs defined for the scraping service are exposed at `/agent/api/v1/configs/:key`. Inline secrets will be exposed to anyone being able to reach these endpoints. If HTTPS with client authentication is not configured, these endpoints are accessible to unauthenticated users. Secrets found in these sections are used for delivering metrics to a Prometheus Remote Write system, authenticating against a system for discovering Prometheus targets, and authenticating against a system for collecting metrics. This does not apply for non-inlined secrets, such as `*_file` based secrets. This issue is patched in Grafana Agent versions 0.20.1 and 0.21.2. A few workarounds are available. Users who cannot upgrade should use non-inline secrets where possible. Users may also desire to restrict API access to Grafana Agent with some combination of restricting the network interfaces Grafana Agent listens on through `http_listen_address` in the `server` block, configuring Grafana Agent to use HTTPS with client authentication, and/or using firewall rules to restrict external access to Grafana Agent's API.

References (6)

Core 6
Core References
Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/grafana/agent/pull/1152
Release Notes, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/grafana/agent/releases/tag/v0.20.1
Release Notes, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/grafana/agent/releases/tag/v0.21.2
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20211229-0004/

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5
EPSS 0.0074
EPSS Percentile 49.5%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-200 CWE-312
Status published
Products (2)
grafana/agent 0.14.0 - 0.20.1
grafana/agent 0.14.0 - 0.21.2Go
Published Dec 08, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026