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CVE-2022-46146

28
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-46146 is a high-severity authentication bypass vulnerability affecting Prometheus Exporter Toolkit versions prior to 0.7.2 and 0.8.2. An attacker with access to the web.yml file and a user's bcrypted password can poison the built-in authentication cache to gain unauthorized access. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 8.8, indicating a high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, with low attack complexity. There is currently no public exploit code, active exploitation, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 0.7.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:prometheus:exporter_toolkit:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 0.8.0, < 0.8.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:prometheus:exporter_toolkit:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.2MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.5
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.16%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
63.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0116 is in the 61st percentile among its peer group of 17,823 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (26)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
gopatch availablevia ghsa
Product: github.com/prometheus/exporter-toolkitFixed in: 0.7.2
gopatch availablevia ghsa
Product: github.com/prometheus/exporter-toolkitFixed in: 0.8.2
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Azure Linux 3.0 x64Fixed in: 0.8.2-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Azure Linux 3.0 ARMFixed in: 0.8.2-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: azl3 prometheus-process-exporter 0.7.10-15 on Azure Linux 3.0Fixed in: 0.8.2-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 18829-17084Fixed in: 0.8.2-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 20089-17084Fixed in: 0.8.2-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: azl3 prometheus-process-exporter 0.8.2-1 on Azure Linux 3.0Fixed in: 0.8.2-1
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.13Fixed in: openshift4/ose-kube-state-metrics:v4.13.0-202304190216.p0.g4b96984.assembly.stream
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.13Fixed in: openshift4/ose-prometheus:v4.13.0-202305020815.p0.g8279148.assembly.stream
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.13Fixed in: openshift4/ose-prometheus-alertmanager:v4.13.0-202304190216.p0.gf44d574.assembly.stream
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.13Fixed in: openshift4/ose-prometheus-node-exporter:v4.13.0-202304190216.p0.g10dc380.assembly.stream
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.13Fixed in: openshift4/ose-thanos-rhel8:v4.13.0-202304190216.p0.gb6f11a5.assembly.stream
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.11Fixed in: openshift4/ose-thanos-rhel8:v4.11.0-202308311243.p0.g99b6e03.assembly.stream
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.12Fixed in: openshift4/ose-thanos-rhel8:v4.12.0-202305022015.p0.g9f2b5ff.assembly.stream
View patch
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift distributed tracing 2Fixed in: rhosdt/opentelemetry-rhel8-operator
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4Fixed in: openshift4/ose-prometheus-node-exporter-rhel9
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4Fixed in: openshift4/ose-prometheus-alertmanager-rhel9
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4Fixed in: rhacm2/kube-state-metrics-rhel9
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Fixed in: grafana
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4Fixed in: openshift4/ose-cluster-monitoring-operator
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4Fixed in: openshift4/metallb-rhel8
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4Fixed in: openshift4/ose-grafana
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4Fixed in: openshift-tech-preview/metallb-rhel8
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Quay 3Fixed in: quay/quay-rhel8

Vendor Advisories (4)

microsoft2024-Sep/CVE-2022-46146

CVE-2022-46146

Sep 10, 2024
goGHSA-7rg2-cxvp-9p7pmedium

Prometheus Exporter-Toolkit is vulnerable to authentication bypass

Dec 2, 2022
redhatCVE-2022-46146Moderate

exporter-toolkit: authentication bypass via cache poisoning

Nov 29, 2022
microsoft2022-Nov/CVE-2022-46146Important

Prometheus Exporter Toolkit vulnerable to basic authentication bypass

Nov 8, 2022

References

github.com / prometheus/exporter-toolkit/commit/5b1eab34484ddd353986bce736cd119d863e4ff5
PatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / prometheus/exporter-toolkit/security/advisories/GHSA-7rg2-cxvp-9p7p
Third Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JRSHISR64L6QGSMDFZDNPHHIXSCAKK26
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UH24VXIB25OGHF4VGY4PLZMTGTI3BHCA
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ULVDTAI76VATRAHTKCE2SUJ4NC3PQZ6Y
security.gentoo.org / glsa/202401-15
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2022/11/29/1
ExploitMailing ListThird Party Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2022/11/29/2
ExploitMailing ListPatchThird Party Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2022/11/29/4
ExploitMailing ListPatchThird Party Advisory