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CVE-2023-40577 (GCVE-0-2023-40577)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-08-25 00:12 – Updated: 2025-02-13 17:08
VLAI
Title
Alertmanager UI is vulnerable to stored XSS via the /api/v1/alerts endpoint
Summary
Alertmanager handles alerts sent by client applications such as the Prometheus server. An attacker with the permission to perform POST requests on the /api/v1/alerts endpoint could be able to execute arbitrary JavaScript code on the users of Prometheus Alertmanager. This issue has been fixed in Alertmanager version 0.2.51.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-10-02 17:48 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
prometheus alertmanager Affected: <= 0.25.0
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