CVE-2022-23552

Published: 27 January 2023

Grafana is an open-source platform for monitoring and observability. Starting with the 8.1 branch and prior to versions 8.5.16, 9.2.10, and 9.3.4, Grafana had a stored XSS vulnerability affecting the core plugin GeoMap. The stored XSS vulnerability was possible because SVG files 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 either an external URL to a SVG-file containing JavaScript, or use the `data:` scheme to load an inline SVG-file 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 8.5.16, 9.2.10, or 9.3.4 to receive a fix.

Notes

Author	Note
alexmurray	Only affectes grafana versions since 8.1

Priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

5.4

Score breakdown

Status

Package	Release	Status
grafana Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	bionic	Does not exist
	focal	Does not exist
	jammy	Does not exist
	kinetic	Does not exist
	trusty	Ignored (end of standard support)
	upstream	Needs triage
	xenial	Not vulnerable (code not present)

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	5.4
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	Required
Scope	Changed
Confidentiality	Low
Integrity impact	Low
Availability impact	None
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

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