CVE-2021-36157

mediumpriority · track · 21EPSS 0.014 · 72 %ileDEEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

1.39% (72nd) EPSS

CVSS 5 · medium

Is it mine?

21 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

5 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · cert_bund · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

An issue was discovered in Grafana Cortex through 1.9.0. The header value X-Scope-OrgID is used to construct file paths for rules files, and if crafted to conduct directory traversal such as ae ../../sensitive/path/in/deployment pathname, then Cortex will attempt to parse a rules file at that location and include some of the contents in the error message. (Other Cortex API requests can also be sent a malicious OrgID header, e.g., tricking the ingester into writing metrics to a different location, but the effect is nuisance rather than information disclosure.)

cvss

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

5.3

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.05mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 2.9

v3.15.3mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 1.4

v3.14.9mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-22USprimaryCWE-22US

affected products (21)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Amazon Linux 2all versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:amazon:linux_2:-
Oracle Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:oracle:linux:-
RESF Rocky Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:resf:rocky_linux:-
Red Hat Enterprise Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:-
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform <4.11.42all versionscert_bundDE
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform <4.12.19all versionscert_bundDE
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform <4.12.48all versionscert_bundDE
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform <4.13.1all versionscert_bundDE
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform <4.13.3all versionscert_bundDE
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform <4.13.9all versionscert_bundDE
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform <4.14.0all versionscert_bundDE
Red Hat OpenShift≤ Container Platform <4.11.42cert_bundDE
Red Hat OpenShift≤ Container Platform <4.12.19cert_bundDE
Red Hat OpenShift≤ Container Platform <4.12.48cert_bundDE
Red Hat OpenShift≤ Container Platform <4.13.1cert_bundDE
Red Hat OpenShift≤ Container Platform <4.13.3cert_bundDE
Red Hat OpenShift≤ Container Platform <4.13.9cert_bundDE
Red Hat OpenShift≤ Container Platform <4.14.0cert_bundDE
n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
linuxfoundation cortex≤ 1.9.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:linuxfoundation:cortex:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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advisories (2)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

WID-SEC-W-2023-1354Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform: Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2023-06-04csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein entfernter, anonymer Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform ausnutzen, um einen Denial of Service Angriff durchzuführen oder Informationen offenzulegen.
GHSA-jphm-g89m-v42pPath traversal in Grafana Cortex2021-09-02ghsa · osvUS
An issue was discovered in Grafana Cortex through 1.9.0. The header value X-Scope-OrgID is used to construct file paths for rules files, and if crafted to conduct directory traversal such as ae ../../sensitive/path/in/deployment pathname, then Cortex will attempt to parse a rules file at that location and include some of the contents in the error message. (Other Cortex API requests can also be sent a malicious OrgID header, e.g., tricking the ingester into writing metrics to a different location, but the effect is nuisance rather than information disclosure.)

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Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd cert_bund nvd osv NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2021-08-03modified 2026-06-17

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references (7)

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