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TI-2022-16485 Aliases CVE-2022-36062GHSA-p978-56hq-r492

Grafana folders admin only permission privilege escalation

Priority LOW 37CWE-281Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
Low
Impact type
—
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
High · Low · Low
Fix status
Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA and GitHub.

Summary

Grafana is an open-source platform for monitoring and observability. In versions prior to 8.5.13, 9.0.9, and 9.1.6, Grafana is subject to Improper Preservation of Permissions resulting in privilege escalation on some folders where Admin is the only used permission. The vulnerability impacts Grafana instances where RBAC was disabled and enabled afterwards, as the migrations which are translating legacy folder permissions to RBAC permissions do not account for the scenario where the only user permission in the folder is Admin, as a result RBAC adds permissions for Editors and Viewers which allow them to edit and view folders accordingly. This issue has been patched in versions 8.5.13, 9.0.9, and 9.1.6. A workaround when the impacted folder/dashboard is known is to remove the additional permissions manually.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00749 55th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed grafana (grafana): 8.5.13, 9.0.9, 9.1.6github.com/grafana/grafana (Go): 8.5.13, 9.0.9, 9.1.6

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

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
Grafanagrafanabefore 8.5.13; 9.0.0 to before 9.0.9; 9.1.0 to before 9.1.68.5.13, 9.0.9, 9.1.6Patch availableCNA
—github.com/grafana/grafana (Go)8.5.0 to before 8.5.138.5.13Patch availableGHSA-p978-56hq-r492
—github.com/grafana/grafana (Go)9.0.0 to before 9.0.99.0.9Patch availableGHSA-p978-56hq-r492
—github.com/grafana/grafana (Go)9.1.0 to before 9.1.69.1.6Patch availableGHSA-p978-56hq-r492
  • grafana VendorGrafana Affected before 8.5.13; 9.0.0 to before 9.0.9; 9.1.0 to before 9.1.6 Fixed in 8.5.13, 9.0.9, 9.1.6 Patch available CNA
  • github.com/grafana/grafana (Go) Vendor— Affected 8.5.0 to before 8.5.13 Fixed in 8.5.13 Patch available GHSA-p978-56hq-r492
  • github.com/grafana/grafana (Go) Vendor— Affected 9.0.0 to before 9.0.9 Fixed in 9.0.9 Patch available GHSA-p978-56hq-r492
  • github.com/grafana/grafana (Go) Vendor— Affected 9.1.0 to before 9.1.6 Fixed in 9.1.6 Patch available GHSA-p978-56hq-r492

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:grafana:grafana:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*before 8.5.13; 9.0.0 to before 9.0.9; 9.1.0 to before 9.1.6VulnerableGrafana
  • cpe:2.3:a:grafana:grafana:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions before 8.5.13; 9.0.0 to before 9.0.9; 9.1.0 to before 9.1.6 Vulnerable ·Grafana

Remediation

  • Fix · CNA grafana (grafana) Fixed in 8.5.13, 9.0.9, 9.1.6
  • Fix · GHSA-p978-56hq-r492 github.com/grafana/grafana (Go) Fixed in 8.5.13 Advisory →
  • Fix · GHSA-p978-56hq-r492 github.com/grafana/grafana (Go) Fixed in 9.0.9 Advisory →
  • Fix · GHSA-p978-56hq-r492 github.com/grafana/grafana (Go) Fixed in 9.1.6 Advisory →

Vendor assessments

Red Hat

Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →

Not affected: 11 products
  • OpenShift Service Mesh 2.0
  • OpenShift Service Mesh 2.1
  • Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2
  • Red Hat Ceph Storage 3
  • Red Hat Ceph Storage 4
  • Red Hat Ceph Storage 5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4
  • Red Hat Storage 3
  • Red Hat build of Quarkus

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2022-36062
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-p978-56hq-r492
  3. 2026-11-03 CISA SSVC decision points changed

References

Patch 1

Advisory 2

Other 2

  • TI-2021-16611 Snapshot authentication bypass in grafana KEVCVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
  • TI-2021-19604 Grafana path traversal KEVCVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
  • TI-2024-08600 Grafana SQL Expressions allow for remote code execution CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.4
  • TI-2023-02931 Authentication bypass by spoofing in Grafana CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
  • TI-2020-10491 The avatar feature in Grafana 3.0.1 through 7.0.1 has an SSRF Incorrect Access Control… CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.2
  • TI-2025-03662 Open redirect in Grafana CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.6
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