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CVE-2021-36157

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.3 Published: 2021-08-03 Modified: 2026-06-17

Description

An issue was discovered in Grafana Cortex through 1.9.0. The header value X-Scope-OrgID is used to construct file paths for rules files, and if crafted to conduct directory traversal such as ae ../../sensitive/path/in/deployment pathname, then Cortex will attempt to parse a rules file at that location and include some of the contents in the error message. (Other Cortex API requests can also be sent a malicious OrgID header, e.g., tricking the ingester into writing metrics to a different location, but the effect is nuisance rather than information disclosure.)

Affected Platforms

Linuxfoundation Cortex

Weakness Type

CWE-22

References