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CVE-2020-12459

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2020-04-29 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-732

Description

In certain Red Hat packages for Grafana 6.x through 6.3.6, the configuration files /etc/grafana/grafana.ini and /etc/grafana/ldap.toml (which contain a secret_key and a bind_password) are world readable.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: 31, 32
• Grafana: from 6.0.0 through 6.3.6

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-12459
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1829724
• 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-20200518-0004/
• https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/grafana/c/fab93d67363eb0a9678d9faf160cc88237f26277
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-12459
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1829724
• 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/

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