CVE-2022-24812
Publication date 12 April 2022
Last updated 25 August 2025
Ubuntu priority
Cvss 3 Severity Score
Description
Grafana is an open-source platform for monitoring and observability. When fine-grained access control is enabled and a client uses Grafana API Key to make requests, the permissions for that API Key are cached for 30 seconds for the given organization. Because of the way the cache ID is constructed, the consequent requests with any API Key evaluate to the same permissions as the previous requests. This can lead to an escalation of privileges, when for example a first request is made with Admin permissions, and the second request with different API Key is made with Viewer permissions, the second request will get the cached permissions from the previous Admin, essentially accessing higher privilege than it should. The vulnerability is only impacting Grafana Enterprise when the fine-grained access control beta feature is enabled and there are more than one API Keys in one organization with different roles assigned. All installations after Grafana Enterprise v8.1.0-beta1 should be upgraded as soon as possible. As an alternative, disable fine-grained access control will mitigate the vulnerability.
Status
| Package | Ubuntu Release | Status |
|---|---|---|
| grafana | 22.04 LTS jammy | Not in release |
| 20.04 LTS focal | Not in release | |
| 18.04 LTS bionic | Not in release | |
| 16.04 LTS xenial |
Not affected
|
|
| 14.04 LTS trusty | Not in release |
Severity score breakdown
| Parameter | Value |
|---|---|
| Base score |
|
| Attack vector | Network |
| Attack complexity | Low |
| Privileges required | Low |
| User interaction | None |
| Scope | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality | High |
| Integrity impact | High |
| Availability impact | High |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
References
Other references
- https://github.com/grafana/grafana/security/advisories/GHSA-82gq-xfg3-5j7v
- https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/release-notes/release-notes-8-4-6/
- https://grafana.com/blog/2022/04/12/grafana-enterprise-8.4.6-released-with-high-severity-security-fix/
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-24812