CVE-2022-21703
grafana: CSRF vulnerability can lead to privilege escalation
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.1
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Published · February 8, 2022
Updated · August 5, 2026
Description
A Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability was found in Grafana. This flaw allows anonymous attackers to elevate their privileges by mounting cross-origin attacks against authenticated high-privilege Grafana users (for example, editors or admins). An attacker can exploit this vulnerability for privilege escalation by tricking an authenticated user into inviting the attacker as a new user with high privileges.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
Please refer to the Grafana upstream advisory for possible workarounds for this issue.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.1 · 6.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CWE-352 · Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)