Grafana Stored Cross-site Scripting in Unified Alerting

Open Source Vulnerabilities CVE-2022-31097

Grafana is an open-source platform for monitoring and observability. Versions on the 8.x and 9.x branch prior to 9.0.3, 8.5.9, 8.4.10, and 8.3.10 are vulnerable to stored cross-site scripting via the Unified Alerting feature of Grafana. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to escalate privilege from editor to admin by tricking an authenticated admin to click on a link. Versions 9.0.3, 8.5.9, 8.4.10, and 8.3.10 contain a patch. As a workaround, it is possible to disable alerting or use legacy alerting.

Open Source Vulnerabilities GHSA-vw7q-p2qg-4m5f

Today we are releasing Grafana 8.3.10, 8.4.10, 8.5.9 and 9.0.3. This patch release includes a HIGH severity security fix for a stored Cross Site Scripting in Grafana. Release v.9.0.3, containing this security fix and other patches: - [Download Grafana 9.0.3](https://grafana.com/grafana/download/9.0.3) - [Release notes](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/next/release-notes/release-notes-9-0-3/) Release v.8.5.9, containing this security fix and other fixes: - [Download Grafana 8.5.9](https://grafana.com/grafana/download/8.5.9) - [Release notes](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/next/release-notes/release-notes-8-5-9/) Release v.8.4.10, containing this security fix and other fixes: - [Download Grafana 8.4.10](https://grafana.com/grafana/download/8.4.10) - [Release notes](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/next/release-notes/release-notes-8-4-10/) Release v.8.3.10, containing this security fix and other fixes: - [Download Grafana 8.3.10](https://grafana.com/grafana/download/8.3.10) ## Stored XSS ([CVE-2022-31097](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-31097)) ### Summary On June 19 a security researcher contacted Grafana Labs to disclose a XSS vulnerability in the Unified Alerting feature of Grafana. After analysis, this stored XSS could be used to elevate privileges from Editor to Admin. We believe that this vulnerability is rated at CVSS 7.3 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N). ### Impact An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to escalate privilege from editor to admin by tricking an authenticated admin to click on a link. ### Affected versions with HIGH severity All Grafana >=8.0 versions are affected by this vulnerability. ### Solutions and mitigations All installations after Grafana v8.0 should be upgraded as soon as possible. As a workaround it is possible to [disable alerting ](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/next/alerting/migrating-alerts/opt-out/#disable-alerting)or use [legacy alerting](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/next/alerting/migrating-alerts/opt-out/#staying-on-legacy-alerting). Appropriate patches have been applied to [Grafana Cloud](https://grafana.com/cloud) and as always, we closely coordinated with all cloud providers licensed to offer Grafana Pro. They have received early notification under embargo and confirmed that their offerings are secure at the time of this announcement. This is applicable to Amazon Managed Grafana. ### Timeline Here is a detailed timeline starting from when we originally learned of the issue. All times in UTC. 2022-06-19 10:32 - Research submission of vulnerability report 2022-06-20 14:35- Issue triaged, confirmed positive, and internal incident raised 2022-06-20 18:40 - Fix PR submitted and reviewed 2022-06-23 07:12 - All Grafana Cloud hosted Grafana instances patched 2022-07-05 07:14 - Customers informed under embargo 2022-07-14 02:00 - Public release ### Acknowledgement We would like to thank Maxim Misharin for responsibly disclosing the vulnerability. ### Reporting security issues If you think you have found a security vulnerability, please send a report to [email protected]. This address can be used for all of Grafana Labs' open source and commercial products (including, but not limited to Grafana, Grafana Cloud, Grafana Enterprise, and grafana.com). We can accept only vulnerability reports at this address. We would prefer that you encrypt your message to us by using our PGP key. The key fingerprint is F988 7BEA 027A 049F AE8E 5CAA D125 8932 BE24 C5CA The key is available from keyserver.ubuntu.com. ### Security announcements We maintain a [security category](https://community.grafana.com/c/support/security-announcements) on our blog, where we will always post a summary, remediation, and mitigation details for any patch containing security fixes. You can also subscribe to our [RSS feed](https://grafana.com/tags/security/index.xml).

Open Source Vulnerabilities GO-2024-2857

Grafana Stored Cross-site Scripting in Unified Alerting in github.com/grafana/grafana. NOTE: The source advisory for this report contains additional versions that could not be automatically mapped to standard Go module versions. (If this is causing false-positive reports from vulnerability scanners, please suggest an edit to the report.) The additional affected modules and versions are: github.com/grafana/grafana from v8.0.0 before v8.3.10, from v8.4.0 before v8.4.10, from v8.5.0 before v8.5.9, from v9.0.0 before v9.0.3.

Open Source Vulnerabilities BIT-grafana-2022-31097

Grafana is an open-source platform for monitoring and observability. Versions on the 8.x and 9.x branch prior to 9.0.3, 8.5.9, 8.4.10, and 8.3.10 are vulnerable to stored cross-site scripting via the Unified Alerting feature of Grafana. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to escalate privilege from editor to admin by tricking an authenticated admin to click on a link. Versions 9.0.3, 8.5.9, 8.4.10, and 8.3.10 contain a patch. As a workaround, it is possible to disable alerting or use legacy alerting.