CVE-2023-4822 Grafana privilege escalation vulnerability
An Organization Admin can escalate privileges or modify permissions globally across all organizations, requiring multi-org setup.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- An administrator
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2023-4822?
CVE-2023-4822 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Grafana Grafana, published on 16 Oct 2023. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Grafana is an open-source platform for monitoring and observability. The vulnerability impacts Grafana instances with several organizations, and allows a user with Organization Admin permissions in one organization to change the permissions associated with Organization Viewer, Organization Editor and Organization Admin roles in all organizations.
It also allows an Organization Admin to assign or revoke any permissions that they have to any user globally.
This means that any Organization Admin can elevate their own permissions in any organization that they are already a member of, or elevate or restrict the permissions of any other user.
The vulnerability does not allow a user to become a member of an organization that they are not already a member of, or to add any other users to an organization that the current user is not a member of.
Weakness: CWE-269
Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-4822?
3 open source packages ship an affected version, including github.com/grafana/grafana and grafana. It affects 1 product.
| Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
github.com/grafana/grafana Go | All versions to 10.1.5 | None |
github.com/grafana/grafana Go | All versions to 10.1.5 | None |
grafana Bitnami | From 8.0.0 to 10.1.4 | 9.4.16, 9.5.11, 10.0.7, 10.1.3 |
Products include Grafana Grafana.
How do I fix CVE-2023-4822?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Is CVE-2023-4822 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-4822 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Grafana Grafana
Sources
Also known as BIT-grafana-2023-4822, GHSA-fw9c-75hh-89p6, UBUNTU-CVE-2023-4822.