CVE-2023-22462
mediumpriority · track · 23EPSS 0.016 · 75 %ileDEEURUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
Grafana is an open-source platform for monitoring and observability. On 2023-01-01 during an internal audit of Grafana, a member of the security team found a stored XSS vulnerability affecting the core plugin "Text". The stored XSS vulnerability requires several user interactions in order to be fully exploited. The vulnerability was possible due to React's render cycle that will pass though the unsanitized HTML code, but in the next cycle the HTML is cleaned up and saved in Grafana's database. An attacker needs to have the Editor role in order to change a Text panel to include JavaScript. Another user needs to edit the same Text panel, and click on "Markdown" or "HTML" for the code to be executed. 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. This issue has been patched in versions 9.2.10 and 9.3.4.
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advisories (3)
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- WID-SEC-W-2023-0528Grafana: Mehrere Schwachstellen ermöglichen Cross-Site ScriptingDeutsch2023-02-28csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein entfernter, authentisierter Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in Grafana ausnutzen, um einen Cross-Site Scripting Angriff durchzuführen.
- GHSA-7rqg-hjwc-6mjfGrafana vulnerable to Stored Cross-site Scripting in Text plugin2023-03-01ghsa · osvUS
### Description On 2023-01-01 during an internal audit of Grafana, a member of the security team found a stored XSS vulnerability affecting the core plugin "Text". The stored XSS vulnerability requires several user interactions in order to be fully exploited. The vulnerability was possible due to React's render cycle that will pass though the unsanitized HTML code, but in the next cycle the HTML is cleaned up and saved in Grafana's database. ### Impact An attacker needs to have the Editor role in order to change a Text panel to include JavaScript. later, an another user needs to edit the same Text panel, and click on "Markdown" or "HTML" for the code to be executed. 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. ### Impacted versions Grafana versions between 9.2.0 and 9.2.10. and between 9.3.0 and 9.3.4 ### Solutions and mitigations Update your Grafana instance. ## 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-2023-22462Stored XSS in Grafana Text plugin2024-03-06vendor · osvUS
Grafana is an open-source platform for monitoring and observability. On 2023-01-01 during an internal audit of Grafana, a member of the security team found a stored XSS vulnerability affecting the core plugin "Text". The stored XSS vulnerability requires several user interactions in order to be fully exploited. The vulnerability was possible due to React's render cycle that will pass though the unsanitized HTML code, but in the next cycle the HTML is cleaned up and saved in Grafana's database. An attacker needs to have the Editor role in order to change a Text panel to include JavaScript. Another user needs to edit the same Text panel, and click on "Markdown" or "HTML" for the code to be executed. 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. This issue has been patched in versions 9.2.10 and 9.3.4.
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- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2023-22462cnnvd
- https://cxsecurity.com/cveshow/CVE-2023-22462/cnnvd
- https://github.com/grafana/grafana/commit/db83d5f398caffe35c5846cfa7727d1a2a414165cnnvd
- https://github.com/grafana/grafana/security/advisories/GHSA-7rqg-hjwc-6mjfcnnvd
- https://grafana.com/blog/2023/02/28/grafana-security-release-new-versions-with-security-fixes-for-cve-2023-0594-cve-2023-0507-and-cve-2023-22462/cnnvd
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-22462cnnvd
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230413-0004/cnnvd
- https://github.com/grafana/grafana/commit/db83d5f398caffe35c5846cfa7727d1a2a414165enisa_euvd
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