Grafana vulnerable to race condition allowing privilege escalation
Priority MEDIUM 51CWE-362Published · Updated
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · High
- 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. Versions starting with 9.2.0 and less than 9.2.4 contain a race condition in the authentication middlewares logic which may allow an unauthenticated user to query an administration endpoint under heavy load. This issue is patched in 9.2.4. There are no known workarounds.
Why it matters now
Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.01301 70th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed grafana (grafana): 9.2.4github.com/grafana/grafana (Go): 9.2.4
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- Yes
- 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 | 9.2.0 to before 9.2.4 | 9.2.4 | Patch available | CNA |
| — | github.com/grafana/grafana (Go) | 9.2.0 to before 9.2.4 | 9.2.4 | Patch available | GHSA-vqc4-mpj8-jxch |
- grafana VendorGrafana Affected 9.2.0 to before 9.2.4 Fixed in 9.2.4 Patch available CNA
- github.com/grafana/grafana (Go) Vendor— Affected 9.2.0 to before 9.2.4 Fixed in 9.2.4 Patch available GHSA-vqc4-mpj8-jxch
Remediation
- Fix · CNA grafana (grafana) Fixed in 9.2.4
- Fix · GHSA-vqc4-mpj8-jxch github.com/grafana/grafana (Go) Fixed in 9.2.4 Advisory →
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Red Hat rating: Important. Red Hat's page for this CVE →
Not affected: 15 products
- Logging Subsystem for Red Hat OpenShift
- OpenShift Service Mesh 2
- 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 3.11
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4
- Red Hat OpenShift GitOps
- Red Hat Storage 3
- Red Hat build of Quarkus
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2022-39328
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-vqc4-mpj8-jxch
References
More Grafana vulnerabilities
- 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
Sources
- CVE-2022-39328 · CVE Program
- CVE-2022-39328 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-vqc4-mpj8-jxch · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2022-39328 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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