CVE-2023-36812: Opentsdb

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 16.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

OpenTSDB is a open source, distributed, scalable Time Series Database (TSDB). OpenTSDB is vulnerable to Remote Code Execution vulnerability by writing user-controlled input to Gnuplot configuration file and running Gnuplot with the generated configuration. This issue has been patched in commit `07c4641471c` and further refined in commit `fa88d3e4b`. These patches are available in the `2.4.2` release. Users are advised to upgrade. User unable to upgrade may disable Gunuplot via the config option`tsd.core.enable_ui = true` and remove the shell files `mygnuplot.bat` and `mygnuplot.sh`.

Affected products

• Opentsdb Opentsdb: before 2.4.2 (fixed in 2.4.2)

Published 2023-06-30. Last modified 2026-06-17.