CVE-2022-21703

mediumpriority · track · 36EPSS 0.023 · 83 %ileDEEURUUS
grimoire priorityP3 · Track
Exploitable?
—
no known exploitation
Likely / severe?
2.28% (83rd) EPSS
CVSS 6.8 · medium
Is it mine?
23 products
Check your exposure
Who says so?
7 sources
cnnvd · enisa_euvd · fstec_bdu · osv

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

Grafana is an open-source platform for monitoring and observability. Affected versions are subject to a cross site request forgery vulnerability which allows attackers to elevate their privileges by mounting cross-origin attacks against authenticated high-privilege Grafana users (for example, Editors or Admins). An attacker can exploit this vulnerability for privilege escalation by tricking an authenticated user into inviting the attacker as a new user with high privileges. Users are advised to upgrade as soon as possible. There are no known workarounds for this issue.

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remediations

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A vendor fix is available.

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cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

8.8
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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 6.3–8.8

v2.06.8mediumAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8.6 · impact 6.4
v3.18.8highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 2.8 · impact 5.9
v3.18.8highAV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · FSTEC (BDU) RU
v3.16.3mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:Nsecondary · ENISA EU
v3.16.3mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:Nsecondary · security-advisories@github.comexploitability 2.1 · impact 4.2
v3.16.8mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Nsecondary · OSV
v3.18.1highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)
v3.18.8highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · Balluff PSIRT
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ssvc

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Trackcoordinatorcisa_ssvcUS
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affected products (23)

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advisories (4)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

  • VDE-2026-049Balluff GmbH: Multiple Vulnerabilities Affecting BNI EGW-720-007-K095 and BAV MA-NC-00025-012026-06-30csaf · balluff_psirtDE

    Security advisory for Balluff BNI EGW-720-007-K095 and BAV MA-NC-00025-01 firmware versions prior to 2.4.1. This advisory covers multiple vulnerabilities affecting software components used by the device firmware.

  • WID-SEC-W-2022-0407Grafana: Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2022-02-08csaf · cert_bundDE

    Ein entfernter, authentisierter Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in Grafana ausnutzen, um einen Cross-Site Scripting Angriff durchzuführen, um Administratorrechte zu erlangen und um Informationen offenzulegen.

  • GHSA-cmf4-h3xc-jw8wGrafana Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF)2024-02-01ghsa · osvUS

    Today we are releasing Grafana 8.3.5 and 7.5.15. This patch release includes MEDIUM severity security fix for Cross Site Request Forgery for Grafana. Release v.8.3.5, only containing security fixes: - [Download Grafana 8.3.5](https://grafana.com/grafana/download/8.3.5) - [Release notes](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/release-notes/release-notes-8-3-5/) Release v.7.5.15, only containing security fixes: - [Download Grafana 7.5.15](https://grafana.com/grafana/download/7.5.15) - [Release notes](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/release-notes/release-notes-7-5-15/) ## CSRF ([CVE-2022-21703](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-21703)) ### Summary On Jan. 18, security researchers [jub0bs](https://twitter.com/jub0bs) and [abrahack](https://twitter.com/theabrahack) contacted Grafana to disclose a CSRF vulnerability which allows anonymous attackers to elevate their privileges by mounting cross-origin attacks against authenticated high-privilege Grafana users (for example, Editors or Admins). We believe that this vulnerability is rated at CVSS 6.8 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N). ### Impact An attacker can exploit this vulnerability for privilege escalation by tricking an authenticated user into inviting the attacker as a new user with high privileges. ### Affected versions with MEDIUM severity All Grafana >=3.0-beta1 versions are affected by this vulnerability. ### Solutions and mitigations All installations after Grafana v3.0-beta1 should be upgraded as soon as possible. Note that if you are running Grafana behind any reverse proxy, you need to make sure that you are passing the original Host and Origin headers from the client request to Grafana. In the case of Apache Server, you need to add `ProxyPreserveHost on` in your proxy [configuration](https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_proxy.html). In case of NGINX, you can need to add `proxy_set_header Host $http_host;` in your [configuration](http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_proxy_module.html). Appropriate patches have been applied to [Grafana Cloud](https://grafana.com/cloud) and as always, we closely coordinated with all cloud providers licensed to offer Grafana Pro. They have received early notification under embargo and confirmed that their offerings are secure at the time of this announcement. This is applicable to Amazon Managed Grafana. ### Timeline and postmortem Here is a detailed timeline starting from when we originally learned of the issue. All times in UTC. - 2022-01-18 03:00 Issue submitted by external researchers - 2022-01-18 17:25 Vulnerability confirmed reproducible - 2022-01-19 07:40 CVSS score confirmed 6.8 at maximum and MEDIUM impact - 2022-01-19 07:40 Begin mitigation for Grafana Cloud - 2022-01-19 17:00 CVE requested - 2022-01-19 19:50 GitHub issues CVE-2022-21703 - 2022-01-21 10:50 PR with fix opened - 2022-01-21 14:13 Private release planned for 2022-01-25, and public release planned for 2022-02-01. - 2022-01-25 12:00 Private release - 2022-02-01 12:00 During the public release process, we realized that private 7.x release was incomplete. Abort public release, send second private release to customers using 7.x - 2022-02-08 12:00 Public release ### Acknowledgement We would like to thank [jub0bs](https://twitter.com/jub0bs) and [abrahack](https://twitter.com/theabrahack) for responsibly disclosing the vulnerability. ### Reporting security issues If you think you have found a security vulnerability, please send a report to security@grafana.com. This address can be used for all of Grafana Labs' open source and commercial products (including, but not limited to Grafana, Grafana Cloud, Grafana Enterprise, and grafana.com). We can accept only vulnerability reports at this address. We would prefer that you encrypt your message to us by using our PGP key. The key fingerprint is F988 7BEA 027A 049F AE8E 5CAA D125 8932 BE24 C5CA The key is available from keyserver.ubuntu.com. ### Security announcements We maintain a [security category](https://community.grafana.com/c/support/security-announcements) on our blog, where we will always post a summary, remediation, and mitigation details for any patch containing security fixes. You can also subscribe to our [RSS feed](https://grafana.com/tags/security/index.xml).

  • BIT-grafana-2022-21703Cross Site Request Forgery in Grafana2024-03-06vendor · osvUS

    Grafana is an open-source platform for monitoring and observability. Affected versions are subject to a cross site request forgery vulnerability which allows attackers to elevate their privileges by mounting cross-origin attacks against authenticated high-privilege Grafana users (for example, Editors or Admins). An attacker can exploit this vulnerability for privilege escalation by tricking an authenticated user into inviting the attacker as a new user with high privileges. Users are advised to upgrade as soon as possible. There are no known workarounds for this issue.

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