CVE-2023-0507 — grafana
HIGHCVE-2023-0507 is a high-severity (CVSS 7.3) Cross-site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in github.com/grafana/grafana. EPSS puts its 30-day exploitation probability at 15.5% (97th percentile). A fix is available for github.com/grafana/grafana — see the affected versions and patch details below.
Grafana vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting
Exploitation Status
No confirmed exploitation observed yet
- 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-2023-0507.
EPSS Exploitation Probability
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) is a daily probability model maintained by FIRST.org. It estimates the likelihood a CVE will be exploited in production environments within the next 30 days, derived from real-world threat intelligence signals.
How urgent is this, really
CVE-2023-0507 plotted by exploitation likelihood (EPSS) against impact (CVSS). The shaded corner — EPSS 50%+ and CVSS 7.0+ — is where this CVE doesn't sit, though severity or exploitability alone can still warrant action.
Where this sits among everything scored
Of 377,166 CVEs with a current EPSS score, this one falls in the 10–50% band (highlighted). Real counts from FIRST.org, not a sample — log-scaled since the landscape is heavily right-skewed.
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
Grafana is an open-source platform for monitoring and observability.
Starting with the 8.1 branch, Grafana had a stored XSS vulnerability affecting the core plugin GeoMap.
The stored XSS vulnerability was possible due to map attributions weren't properly sanitized and allowed arbitrary JavaScript to be executed in the context of the currently authorized user of the Grafana instance.
An attacker needs to have the Editor role in order to change a panel to include a map attribution containing JavaScript.
This means that vertical privilege escalation is possible, where a user with Editor role can change to a known password for a user having Admin role if the user with Admin role executes malicious JavaScript viewing a dashboard.
Users may upgrade to version 8.5.21, 9.2.13 and 9.3.8 to receive a fix.
Affected Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🐹Go | github.com/grafana/grafana | ≥ 8.1.0&&< 8.5.21 | 8.5.21go get github.com/grafana/grafana@v8.5.21 |
| 🐹Go | github.com/grafana/grafana | ≥ 9.0.0&&< 9.2.13 | 9.2.13go get github.com/grafana/grafana@v9.2.13 |
| 🐹Go | github.com/grafana/grafana | ≥ 9.3.0&&< 9.3.8 | 9.3.8go get github.com/grafana/grafana@v9.3.8 |
Detection & 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 8.5.21 or later, then make sure no transitive (indirect) dependency still pins the vulnerable range — O3 confirms CVE-2023-0507 is resolved across your whole dependency graph.
Workarounds
If you can't upgrade right away: gate or disable the affected feature, validate untrusted input at the boundary, and avoid passing attacker-controlled data into the vulnerable path. O3's runtime protection blocks exploitation in production as an interim safeguard until the upgrade lands.
How O3 protects you
O3 Security's impact-aware SCA analyses which vulnerable code paths your application actually calls, so a match like CVE-2023-0507 can be triaged on real exposure rather than presence alone.
Tailored to CVE-2023-0507. Runtime protection reduces exposure until a permanent patch is applied and verified — it complements patching, it doesn't replace it.
Fixing This On Your OS
If you run this on a Linux distribution, patch through your package manager against the distro's own security advisory below — it tracks the exact backported fix for your release, which can ship on a different timeline (and sometimes a different severity) than the upstream project.
For Grafana package shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux, it is not possible to take advantage of this vulnerability without specialized 'editor' access, which reduces the impact of this issue in RHEL. Thus, it is set to Moderate.
| Product | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Ceph Storage 5.3 | rhceph/rhceph-5-dashboard-rhel8:5-83 | RHSA-2024:0746 |
Frequently Asked Questions
Is CVE-2023-0507 in your dependencies?
O3 Security finds CVE-2023-0507 across Go dependencies, including transitive ones, and its impact-aware SCA ranks findings by whether your code actually calls the vulnerable path.