Dashboard Permissions Scope Bypass Enables Cross‑Dashboard Privilege Escalation
The dashboard permissions API does not verify the target dashboard scope and only checks the dashboards.permissions:* action. As a result, a user who has permission management rights on one dashboard can read and modify permissions on other dashboards. This is an organization‑internal privilege escalation.
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
11 explicit affected versions
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
The dashboard permissions API does not verify the target dashboard scope and only checks the dashboards.permissions:* action. As a result, a user who has permission management rights on one dashboard can read and modify permissions on other dashboards. This is an organization‑internal privilege escalation.
The dashboard permissions API does not verify the target dashboard scope and only checks the dashboards.permissions:* action. As a result, a user who has permission management rights on one dashboard can read and modify permissions on other dashboards. This is an organization‑internal privilege escalation.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:2914
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:2920
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:3078
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:3529
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:40138
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:41064
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:5633
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:8229
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-21721
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2433242
- https://grafana.com/security/security-advisories/CVE-2026-21721
- https://grafana.com/security/security-advisories/cve-2026-21721
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-21721
- https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-21721.json
- https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/21xxx/CVE-2026-21721.json