CVE-2022-36062 — grafana
HIGHCVE-2022-36062 is a high-severity (CVSS 7.6) CWE-281 vulnerability in github.com/grafana/grafana. A fix is available for github.com/grafana/grafana — see the affected versions and patch details below.
Grafana folders admin only permission privilege escalation
Exploitation Status
No confirmed exploitation observed yet
- A successful exploit gives an attacker total control of the affected component, not partial access.
- CISA’s own triage has not observed active exploitation or public proof-of-concept code for this CVE as of its last assessment.
Exploitation and automatability from CISA’s SSVC triage for CVE-2022-36062.
EPSS Exploitation Probability
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.
How urgent is this, really
Where this sits among everything scored
Real-World Exposure
github.com/grafana/grafana🐹github.com/grafana/grafana🐹github.com/grafana/grafanaReal-time download stats are indexed for npm and PyPI packages. This vulnerability affects Go packages — download data is not available via public APIs for these ecosystems.
Description
Today we are releasing Grafana 9.1.6, 9.0.9, 8.5.13. This patch release includes a Moderate severity security fix for CVE-2022-36062 that affects Grafana instances which are using Grafana role-based access control (RBAC).
Release 9.1.6, latest patch, also containing security fix:
Release 9.0.9, only containing security fix:
Release 8.5.13, only containing security fix:
Appropriate patches have been applied to Grafana Cloud and as always, we closely coordinated with all cloud providers licensed to offer Grafana Pro. They have received early notification under embargo and confirmed that their offerings are secure at the time of this announcement. This is applicable to Amazon Managed Grafana and Azure's Grafana as a service offering.
Privilege escalation (CVE-2022-36062)
Summary
On August 29 we have received a bug report for Grafana role-based access control (RBAC) and confirmed a vulnerability in the Grafana. This vulnerability impacts folders/dashboards with Admin only permissions and where RBAC was ever enabled at least once.
When RBAC is enabled, Grafana runs migrations which translate legacy access control permissions into RBAC permissions. The migrations contain a bug, which grants additional access to folders/dashboards which only had Admin role grant, resulting in a privilege escalation where Editors can edit and Viewers can view the folder/dashboard which they should not have access to.
The CVSS score for this vulnerability is 6.4 Moderate (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L).
Impacted versions
All Grafana installations where the RBAC was at least enabled once and there are folders/dashboards with only Admin grant.
Solutions and mitigations
To fully address CVE-2022-36062 please upgrade your Grafana instances. They are only required if you have ever enabled RBAC and have dashboards/folders where Admin is the only permission..
If you can’t upgrade, as a workaround when impacted folder/dashboard is known, the additional permissions can be removed manually.
Appropriate patches have been applied to Grafana Cloud.
Timeline
Here is a timeline starting from when we originally learned of the issue.
- 2022-08-27: External report received about a bug in Grafana role-based access control.
- 2022-08-30: The bug is confirmed as a vulnerability.
- 2022-08-31: Mitigation is applied to Grafana Cloud.
- 2022-08-31: Release timeline determined: 2022-09-06 for private customer release, 2022-09-20 for public release.
- 2022-09-06: Private release.
- 2022-09-20: Public release.
Reporting security issues
If you think you have found a security vulnerability, please send a report to [email protected]. This address can be used for all of Grafana Labs' open source and commercial products (including, but not limited to Grafana, Grafana Cloud, Grafana Enterprise, and grafana.com). We can accept only vulnerability reports at this address. We would prefer that you encrypt your message to us by using our PGP key. The key fingerprint is
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Affected Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🐹Go | github.com/grafana/grafana | ≥ 8.5.0&&< 8.5.13 | 8.5.13go get github.com/grafana/grafana@v8.5.13 |
| 🐹Go | github.com/grafana/grafana | ≥ 9.0.0&&< 9.0.9 | 9.0.9go get github.com/grafana/grafana@v9.0.9 |
| 🐹Go | github.com/grafana/grafana | ≥ 9.1.0&&< 9.1.6 | 9.1.6go get github.com/grafana/grafana@v9.1.6 |
Affected Products
grafanagrafanaDetection & mitigation playbook
Open-source dependencyDetect
Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for github.com/grafana/grafana, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.
Fix
Update github.com/grafana/grafana to 8.5.13 or later, then make sure no transitive (indirect) dependency still pins the vulnerable range — O3 confirms CVE-2022-36062 is resolved across your whole dependency graph.
Workarounds
Close the privilege gap rather than the entry point: audit which accounts, roles and service identities can reach the affected operation, drop the component to the least privilege it actually needs, and review file and directory permissions created by earlier installs — a default left in place is what makes this reachable.
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