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CVE-2020-12458

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2020-04-29 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-732

Description

An information-disclosure flaw was found in Grafana through 6.7.3. The database directory /var/lib/grafana and database file /var/lib/grafana/grafana.db are world readable. This can result in exposure of sensitive information (e.g., cleartext or encrypted datasource passwords).

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: 31, 32
• Grafana: through 6.7.3
• Red Hat Ceph Storage: 3.0, 4.0
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 8.0

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-12458
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1827765
• https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/8283
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CTQCKJZZYXMCSHJFZZ3YXEO5NUBANGZS/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WEBCIEVSYIDDCA7FTRS2IFUOYLIQU34A/
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200518-0001/
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-12458
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1827765
• https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/8283
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CTQCKJZZYXMCSHJFZZ3YXEO5NUBANGZS/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WEBCIEVSYIDDCA7FTRS2IFUOYLIQU34A/
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200518-0001/

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