CVE-2023-4822
grafana: incorrect assessment of permissions across organizations
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.1
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Published · October 12, 2023
Updated · October 31, 2026
Description
A flaw was found in the Grafana enterprise package. Grafana is incorrectly assessing permissions to update global roles and role assignments, therefore, users with administrator permissions in one organization can change global role permissions and global role assignments. After successful exploitation, an attacker who has the Organization Admin role in any organization can elevate their permissions across all organizations, elevate other users’ permissions in all organizations, or limit other users’ permissions in all organizations.
Statement
Only Grafana enterprise instances with more than one organization are vulnerable to this security issue. Red Hat does not ship enterprise versions of Grafana, therefore, Red Hat products are not affected by this vulnerability.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.1 · 6.7CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L
CWE not specified