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SCA: security update for github.com/prometheus/exporter-toolkit (GHSA-7rg2-cxvp-9p7p)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 412242

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - Prometheus Exporter Toolkit is a utility package to build exporters. Prior to versions 0.7.2 and 0.8.2, if
 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.
 (CVE-2022-46146)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-7rg2-cxvp-9p7p

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 412242

Version: Revision 1.7

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.15

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-46146

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/2/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/29/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-46146

cwe: CWE-287