CVE-2023-2801 Grafana Missing Synchronization vulnerability

What is CVE-2023-2801?

CVE-2023-2801 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Grafana Grafana, published on 6 Jun 2023. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Grafana is an open-source platform for monitoring and observability.

Using public dashboards users can query multiple distinct data sources using mixed queries. However such query has a possibility of crashing a Grafana instance.

The only feature that uses mixed queries at the moment is public dashboards, but it's also possible to cause this by calling the query API directly.

This might enable malicious users to crash Grafana instances through that endpoint.

Users may upgrade to version 9.4.12 and 9.5.3 to receive a fix.

Weakness: CWE-662, CWE-820

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-2801?

5 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-2023-2801?

Upgrade github.com/grafana/grafana to a fixed version for your release line: 9.4.12 or 9.5.3.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2023-2801 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-2801 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• 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
• How this page is made

Also known as BIT-grafana-2023-2801, GHSA-x2w4-c67p-g44j, UBUNTU-CVE-2023-2801.