CVE-2021-31232

lowpriority · track · 22EPSS 0.004 · 31 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

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no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.37% (31st) EPSS

CVSS 2.1 · low

Is it mine?

3 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · osv · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

The Alertmanager in CNCF Cortex before 1.8.1 has a local file disclosure vulnerability when -experimental.alertmanager.enable-api is used. The HTTP basic auth password_file can be used as an attack vector to send any file content via a webhook. The alertmanager templates can be used as an attack vector to send any file content because the alertmanager can load any text file specified in the templates list.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

5.5

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · low–medium · 2.1–5.5

v2.02.1lowAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 2.9

v3.15.5mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 1.8 · impact 3.6

v3.15.5mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:Nsecondary · OSV

v3.15.1mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-20US

affected products (3)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
linuxfoundation cortex< 1.8.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:linuxfoundation:cortex:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Go github.com/cortexproject/cortex< 1.8.1osvUSpkg:golang/github.com/cortexproject/cortex

advisories (2)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-m45g-f45x-vv22Improper input validation in CNCF Cortex2021-06-23ghsa · osvUS
The Alertmanager in CNCF Cortex before 1.8.1 has a local file disclosure vulnerability when -experimental.alertmanager.enable-api is used. The HTTP basic auth password_file can be used as an attack vector to send any file content via a webhook. The alertmanager templates can be used as an attack vector to send any file content because the alertmanager can load any text file specified in the templates list.
GO-2022-0915Improper input validation in CNCF Cortex in github.com/cortexproject/cortex2024-08-21vendor · osvUS
Improper input validation in CNCF Cortex in github.com/cortexproject/cortex

also known as (5)

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sources

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cnnvd enisa_euvd osv nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2021-04-30modified 2026-06-17

references (15)

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