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CVE-2022-21703

grafana: CSRF vulnerability can lead to privilege escalation

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

6.8

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 · 6.8
CVSS: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)