USN-6243-2: Graphite-Web regression

9 August 2023

USN-6243-1 caused a minor regression in Graphite-Web.

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Releases

Packages

  • graphite-web - A highly scalable real-time graphing system

Details

USN-6243-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Graphite-Web. It was discovered that the
applied fix was incomplete. This update fixes the problem.

Original advisory details:

It was discovered that Graphite-Web incorrectly handled certain inputs. If a
user or an automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted
input file, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform
server-side request forgery and obtain sensitive information. This issue
only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2017-18638)

It was discovered that Graphite-Web incorrectly handled certain inputs. If a
user or an automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted
input file, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform
cross site scripting and obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2022-4728,
CVE-2022-4729, CVE-2022-4730)

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 18.04

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

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