vulnerability

Arch Linux: Information disclosure (CVE-2021-41090)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Dec 8, 2021
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Nov 27, 2025

Description

A security issue has been found in Grafana Agent before version 0.21.2. Some inline secrets are exposed in plaintext over the Grafana Agent HTTP server:

- Inline secrets for metrics instance configs in the base YAML file are exposed at /-/config
- Inline secrets for integrations are exposed at /-/config
- Inline secrets for Consul ACL tokens and ETCD basic auth when configured for the scraping service at /-/config.
- Inline secrets for the Kafka receiver for OpenTelemetry-Collector tracing at /-/config.
- Inline secrets for metrics instance configs loaded from the scraping service are exposed at /agent/api/v1/configs/{name}.

Inline secrets will be exposed to anyone being able to reach these endpoints.

Secrets found in these sections are used for:

- Delivering metrics to a Prometheus Remote Write system
- Authenticating against a system for discovering Prometheus targets
- Authenticating against a system for collecting metrics (scrape_configs and integrations)
- Authenticating against a Consul or ETCD for storing configurations to distribute in scraping service mode
- Authenticating against Kafka for receiving traces

Non-inlined secrets, such as *_file-based secrets, are not impacted by this vulnerability.

Solution

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