Dashboard Import Overwrites ACL — Editor Privilege Escalation to Dashboard Admin

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

• grafana grafana8.5.0 and later · before 11.6.14
• grafana grafana12.2.0 and later · before 12.2.8
• grafana grafana12.3.0 and later · before 12.3.6
• grafana grafana12.4.0 and later · before 12.4.3
• grafana grafana11.6.14
• grafana grafana12.2.8
• grafana grafana12.3.6
• grafana grafana12.4.3
• grafana grafana13.0.0
• grafana grafana13.0.1

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (GRAFANA). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

• Grafana Grafana OSS

  • 8.5.0 and later · up to and including 11.6.14affected · semver
  • 11.6.14 and later · before 11.6.14+security-04affected
  • 12.0.0 and later · up to and including 12.2.8affected · semver
  • 12.2.8 and later · before 12.2.8+security-04affected
  • 12.3.0 and later · up to and including 12.3.6affected · semver
  • 12.3.6 and later · before 12.3.6+security-04affected
  • 12.4.0 and later · up to and including 12.4.3affected · semver
  • 12.4.3 and later · before 12.4.3+security-02affected
  • 13.0.0 and later · up to and including 13.0.1affected · semver
  • 13.0.1 and later · before 13.0.1+security-01affected

Package-level exposure

OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

• CVE-2021-39226Snapshot authentication bypass in grafanaKEV
  89Now
• CVE-2021-43798Grafana path traversalKEV
  87Now
• CVE-2024-9264Grafana SQL Expressions allow for remote code execution
  65This week
• CVE-2020-13379The avatar feature in Grafana 3.0.1 through 7.0.1 has an SSRF Incorrect Access Control issue.
  62This week
• CVE-2018-15727Grafana 2.x, 3.x, and 4.x before 4.6.4 and 5.x before 5.2.3 allows authentication bypass because an attacker can generate a valid "remember
  58Plan
• CVE-2022-31097Stored XSS in Grafana's Unified Alerting
  55Plan

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Root cause

Authentication is added route by route instead of being enforced in one place. When a route added later bypasses the shared middleware, the session check never runs for it.

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

1app.use("/admin", requireSession, adminRouter);2
3// Route added later skips the middleware4app.post("/admin-api/config", updateConfig);

1const admin = express.Router();2admin.use(requireSession, requireRole("admin"));3
4admin.post("/config", updateConfig);5app.use("/admin", admin);

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.