QID 150576

Date Published: 2022-10-04

QID 150576: Grafana Authentication Bypass Vulnerability (CVE-2022-35957)

Grafana is a multi-platform open source analytics and interactive visualization web application. It provides charts, graphs, and alerts for the web when connected to supported data sources.

Affected versions of Grafana is vulnerable to an escalation from admin to server admin when auth proxy is used, allowing an admin to take over the server admin account and gain full control of the grafana instance.

Affected Versions:
Grafana versions before 8.5.13
Grafana versions from 9.0.0 to 9.0.9
Grafana versions from 9.1.0 to 9.1.6

QID Detection Logic :
This QID sends an HTTP GET request and retrieves a vulnerable version of a Grafana running on the target application.

Successful exploitation could allow an attacker to take over the server admin account and gain full control of the grafana instance.

  • CVSS V3 rated as High - 6.6 severity.
  • CVSS V2 rated as Medium - 4 severity.
  • Solution
    Customers are advised to upgrade to Grafana to later version to remediate this vulnerability. For more information regarding this vulnerability please refer Github Advisory.

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    Software Advisories
    Advisory ID Software Component Link
    Github URL Logo github.com/grafana/grafana/security/advisories/GHSA-ff5c-938w-8c9q