CVE-2022-21703

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2022-21703  

Grafana is an open-source platform for monitoring and observability. Affected versions are subject to a cross site request forgery vulnerability which allows attackers to elevate their privileges by mounting cross-origin attacks against authenticated high-privilege Grafana users (for example, Editors or Admins). An attacker can exploit this vulnerability for privilege escalation by tricking an authenticated user into inviting the attacker as a new user with high privileges. Users are advised to upgrade as soon as possible. There are no known workarounds for this issue.

Description

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Grafana is an open-source platform for monitoring and observability. Affected versions are subject to a cross site request forgery vulnerability which allows attackers to elevate their privileges by mounting cross-origin attacks against authenticated high-privilege Grafana users (for example, Editors or Admins). An attacker can exploit this vulnerability for privilege escalation by tricking an authenticated user into inviting the attacker as a new user with high privileges. Users are advised to upgrade as soon as possible. There are no known workarounds for this issue.

Mitigation

Please refer to the Grafana upstream advisory for possible workarounds for this issue.

Additional Information

  • Bugzilla 2050742: CVE-2022-21703 grafana: CSRF vulnerability can lead to privilege escalation
  • CWE-352: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
  • FAQ: Frequently asked questions about CVE-2022-21703