USN-5451-1: InfluxDB vulnerability

31 May 2022

An InfluxDB vulnerability allowed attackers to login as any known database user.

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Releases

Packages

  • influxdb - Scalable datastore for metrics, events, and real-time analytics

Details

Ilya Averyanov discovered that an InfluxDB vulnerability allowed
attackers to bypass authentication and gain access to any known
database user.

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 20.04
Ubuntu 18.04

After a standard system update you need to restart the influxdb
service to make all the necessary changes.

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