CVE-2022-46146 Information

Description

Prometheus Exporter Toolkit is a utility package to build exporters. Prior to versions 0.7.2 and 0.8.2 i someone has access to a Prometheus web.yml file and users’ bcrypted passwords they can bypass security by poisoning the built-in authentication cache. Versions 0.7.2 and 0.8.2 contain a fix for the issue. There is no workaround but attacker must have access to the hashed password to use this functionality.

Reference

https://github.com/prometheus/exporter-toolkit/security/advisories/GHSA-7rg2-cxvp-9p7p https://github.com/prometheus/exporter-toolkit/commit/5b1eab34484ddd353986bce736cd119d863e4ff5 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/11/29/1 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/11/29/2 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/11/29/4