CVE-2022-39201 Data source and plugin proxy endpoints could leak the authentication cookie to some destination plugins

What is CVE-2022-39201?

CVE-2022-39201 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Grafana Grafana, published on 13 Oct 2022. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Grafana is an open source observability and data visualization platform. Starting with version 5.0.0-beta1 and prior to versions 8.5.14 and 9.1.8, Grafana could leak the authentication cookie of users to plugins. The vulnerability impacts data source and plugin proxy endpoints under certain conditions. The destination plugin could receive a user's Grafana authentication cookie. Versions 9.1.8 and 8.5.14 contain a patch for this issue. There are no known workarounds.

Weakness: CWE-200

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-39201?

6 open source packages ship an affected version, including github.com/grafana/grafana and grafana. It affects 1 product.

Products include Grafana Grafana.

How do I fix CVE-2022-39201?

Upgrade github.com/grafana/grafana to a fixed version for your release line: 8.5.14 or 9.1.8.

Is CVE-2022-39201 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-39201 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Grafana Grafana

• CVE-2021-43798 Grafana Path Traversal Exploited High 7.5
• CVE-2025-41115 Incorrect privilege assignment Critical 10.0
• CVE-2022-39328 Grafana vulnerable to race condition allowing privilege escalation Critical 9.8
• CVE-2022-28660 Auth bypass in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2022-26148 Information disclosure in n/a Critical 9.8

All Grafana Grafana vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as BIT-grafana-2022-39201, GHSA-x744-mm8v-vpgr, GO-2024-2858, MINI-24r7-3qcr-5vc4, MINI-27hm-9h7m-hgw4, MINI-3xr8-q5x6-hc2m and 15 more.