CVE-2022-24812

HIGH

Grafana 8.1.0-8.4.6 - Privilege Escalation via API Key Permission Cache

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Grafana is an open-source platform for monitoring and observability. When fine-grained access control is enabled and a client uses Grafana API Key to make requests, the permissions for that API Key are cached for 30 seconds for the given organization. Because of the way the cache ID is constructed, the consequent requests with any API Key evaluate to the same permissions as the previous requests. This can lead to an escalation of privileges, when for example a first request is made with Admin permissions, and the second request with different API Key is made with Viewer permissions, the second request will get the cached permissions from the previous Admin, essentially accessing higher privilege than it should. The vulnerability is only impacting Grafana Enterprise when the fine-grained access control beta feature is enabled and there are more than one API Keys in one organization with different roles assigned. All installations after Grafana Enterprise v8.1.0-beta1 should be upgraded as soon as possible. As an alternative, disable fine-grained access control will mitigate the vulnerability.

References (4)

Core 4
Core References
Patch, Release Notes, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://github.com/grafana/grafana/security/advisories/GHSA-82gq-xfg3-5j7v
Release Notes, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/release-notes/release-notes-8-4-6/
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220519-0005/

Scores

CVSS v3 8.0
EPSS 0.0225
EPSS Percentile 80.6%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact total

Details

CWE
CWE-269
Status published
Products (1)
grafana/grafana 8.1.0 - 8.4.6
Published Apr 12, 2022
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026