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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2020-12459

In certain Red Hat packages for Grafana 6.x through 6.3.6, the configuration files /etc/grafana/grafana.ini and /etc/grafana/ldap.toml (which contain a secret_key and a bind_password) are world readable.

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CVE-2020-12459
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31 Oct 2026, 11:16 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2020-12459

core-osv · Original source

Published 29 Apr 2020, 16:15 UTC

In certain Red Hat packages for Grafana 6.x through 6.3.6, the configuration files /etc/grafana/grafana.ini and /etc/grafana/ldap.toml (which contain a secret_key and a bind_password) are world readable.

osv:CVE-2020-12459
Complete source record
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  "method": "structured",
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    "summary": "In certain Red Hat packages for Grafana 6.x through 6.3.6, the configuration files /etc/grafana/grafana.ini and /etc/grafana/ldap.toml (which contain a secret_key and a bind_password) are world readable.",
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        "GO-2024-2519"
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      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:53:44.269063750Z",
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      "references": [
        "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CTQCKJZZYXMCSHJFZZ3YXEO5NUBANGZS/",
        "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WEBCIEVSYIDDCA7FTRS2IFUOYLIQU34A/",
        "https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-12459",
        "https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/8283",
        "https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200518-0004/",
        "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1829724",
        "https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/grafana/c/fab93d67363eb0a9678d9faf160cc88237f26277"
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 384557,
  "published_at": "2020-04-29T16:15:11.823+00:00"
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