RHEL 9 : grafana (RHSA-2025:8681)

high Nessus Plugin ID 240691

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for grafana.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2025:8681 advisory.

Grafana is an open source, feature rich metrics dashboard and graph editor for Graphite, InfluxDB & OpenTSDB.

Security Fix(es):

* grafana: Cross-site Scripting (XSS) in Grafana via Custom Frontend Plugins and Open Redirect (CVE-2025-4123)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL grafana package based on the guidance in RHSA-2025:8681.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2364632

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:8681

http://www.nessus.org/u?c7463ebd

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 240691

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2025-8681.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/26/2025

Updated: 6/26/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.0

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-4123

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.6

Temporal Score: 6.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:grafana, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_e4s:9.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/9/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/6/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-4123

CWE: 79

RHSA: 2025:8681