Stored XSS in Grafana's Unified Alerting
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- Required
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Cross-site scripting
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · None
- Fix status
- Partial Red Hat: 1 fixed, 6 without a fix
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · NVD. Fix status from CNA, GitHub and Red Hat. Impact type from CWE-79.
Summary
Grafana is an open-source platform for monitoring and observability. Versions on the 8.x and 9.x branch prior to 9.0.3, 8.5.9, 8.4.10, and 8.3.10 are vulnerable to stored cross-site scripting via the Unified Alerting feature of Grafana. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to escalate privilege from editor to admin by tricking an authenticated admin to click on a link. Versions 9.0.3, 8.5.9, 8.4.10, and 8.3.10 contain a patch. As a workaround, it is possible to disable alerting or use legacy alerting.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Total
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grafana | grafana | 9.0.0 to before 9.0.3; 8.5.0 to before 8.5.9; 8.4.0 to before 8.4.10; 8.0.0 to before 8.3.10 | 9.0.3, 8.5.9, 8.4.10, 8.3.10 | Patch available | CNA |
| — | github.com/grafana/grafana (Go) | 9.0.0 to before 9.0.3 | 9.0.3 | Patch available | GHSA-vw7q-p2qg-4m5f |
| — | github.com/grafana/grafana (Go) | 8.5.0 to before 8.5.9 | 8.5.9 | Patch available | GHSA-vw7q-p2qg-4m5f |
| — | github.com/grafana/grafana (Go) | 8.4.0 to before 8.4.10 | 8.4.10 | Patch available | GHSA-vw7q-p2qg-4m5f |
| — | github.com/grafana/grafana (Go) | 8.0.0 to before 8.3.10 | 8.3.10 | Patch available | GHSA-vw7q-p2qg-4m5f |
- grafana VendorGrafana Affected 9.0.0 to before 9.0.3; 8.5.0 to before 8.5.9; 8.4.0 to before 8.4.10; 8.0.0 to before 8.3.10 Fixed in 9.0.3, 8.5.9, 8.4.10, 8.3.10 Patch available CNA
- github.com/grafana/grafana (Go) Vendor— Affected 9.0.0 to before 9.0.3 Fixed in 9.0.3 Patch available GHSA-vw7q-p2qg-4m5f
- github.com/grafana/grafana (Go) Vendor— Affected 8.5.0 to before 8.5.9 Fixed in 8.5.9 Patch available GHSA-vw7q-p2qg-4m5f
- github.com/grafana/grafana (Go) Vendor— Affected 8.4.0 to before 8.4.10 Fixed in 8.4.10 Patch available GHSA-vw7q-p2qg-4m5f
- github.com/grafana/grafana (Go) Vendor— Affected 8.0.0 to before 8.3.10 Fixed in 8.3.10 Patch available GHSA-vw7q-p2qg-4m5f
Remediation
- Fix · CNA grafana (grafana) Fixed in 9.0.3, 8.5.9, 8.4.10, 8.3.10
- Fix · GHSA-vw7q-p2qg-4m5f github.com/grafana/grafana (Go) Fixed in 9.0.3 Advisory →
- Fix · GHSA-vw7q-p2qg-4m5f github.com/grafana/grafana (Go) Fixed in 8.5.9 Advisory →
- Fix · GHSA-vw7q-p2qg-4m5f github.com/grafana/grafana (Go) Fixed in 8.4.10 Advisory →
- Fix · GHSA-vw7q-p2qg-4m5f github.com/grafana/grafana (Go) Fixed in 8.3.10 Advisory →
Red Hat 1 advisory
- RHSA-2023:3642 Released 2023-06-15 · Red Hat rating ImportantRed Hat Ceph Storage 6.1 Container security and bug fix update
- Red Hat Ceph Storage 6.1 Tools rhceph/keepalived-rhel9, rhceph/rhceph-6-dashboard-rhel9, rhceph/rhceph-6-rhel9 +3
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Red Hat rating: Important. Red Hat's page for this CVE →
| Product | Status | Plan or fix |
|---|---|---|
| OpenShift Service Mesh 2.0 | Affected | No fix yet |
| OpenShift Service Mesh 2.1 | Affected | No fix yet |
| Red Hat Ceph Storage 3 | Affected | No fix yet |
| Red Hat Ceph Storage 4 | Affected | No fix yet |
| Red Hat Ceph Storage 5 | Affected | No fix yet |
| Red Hat Storage 3 | Affected | No fix yet |
| Red Hat Ceph Storage 6.1 Tools | Fixed | RHSA-2023:3642 |
Not affected: 5 products
- Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2
- Red Hat Ceph Storage 6.1 Tools
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2022-31097
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-vw7q-p2qg-4m5f
References
Advisory 6
- https://github.com/grafana/grafana/security/advisories/GHSA-vw7q-p2qg-4m5f
- https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/release-notes/release-notes-9-0-3/
- https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/next/release-notes/release-notes-8-4-10/
- https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/release-notes/release-notes-8-5-9/
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220901-0010/
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-31097
Other 5
- https://github.com/grafana/grafana
- https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/release-notes/release-notes-8-5-9
- https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/release-notes/release-notes-9-0-3
- https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/next/release-notes/release-notes-8-4-10
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220901-0010
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- TI-2023-02931 Authentication bypass by spoofing in Grafana CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
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- TI-2025-03662 Open redirect in Grafana CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.6
Sources
- CVE-2022-31097 · CVE Program
- CVE-2022-31097 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-vw7q-p2qg-4m5f · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2022-31097 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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