# CVE-2022-44643: Access policy with access to all tenants and using label selectors has more access

> Attackers can bypass label selector restrictions in Grafana Enterprise Metrics access policies when granted access to all tenants, leading to unauthorized data access.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.7 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 21 Dec 2022
- **Updated:** 15 Apr 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-rp9r-6gmg-rh38

## What is CVE-2022-44643?

CVE-2022-44643 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in n/a, published on 21 Dec 2022. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

A vulnerability in the label-based access control of Grafana Labs Grafana Enterprise Metrics allows an attacker more access than intended. If an access policy which has label selector restrictions also has been granted access to all tenants in the system, the label selector restrictions will not be applied when using this policy with the affected versions of the software. This issue affects: Grafana Labs Grafana Enterprise Metrics GEM 1.X versions prior to 1.7.1 on AMD64; GEM 2.X versions prior to 2.3.1 on AMD64.

Weakness: CWE-284 (Improper Access Control)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-44643?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Grafana Enterprise Metrics.

## How do I fix CVE-2022-44643?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-44643 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2022-44643 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-44643 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in n/a

- [CVE-2021-31231](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-31231/): Information disclosure in n/a (medium 5.5)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2022-44643 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2022-44643 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in n/a, published on 21 Dec 2022. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-44643 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: n/a. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-44643/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-44643/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-44643
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-44643
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-44643

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-44643/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.