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CVE-2022-35957

Escalation from admin to server admin when auth proxy is used

Severity
Medium 6.6
Published
20 Sept 2022
Last changed
17 Jun 2026
Added to UpHeron
1 Nov 2026
Fixed in
8.5.13, 9.0.9, 9.1.6
Also known as
GHSA-ff5c-938w-8c9q
Sources
NVD, Project advisories (GitHub)

Description

Grafana is an open-source platform for monitoring and observability. Versions prior to 9.1.6 and 8.5.13 are vulnerable to an escalation from admin to server admin when auth proxy is used, allowing an admin to take over the server admin account and gain full control of the grafana instance. All installations should be upgraded as soon as possible. As a workaround deactivate auth proxy following…

Affected software

SoftwareAffected versions
GrafanaServers and applications · cpe:a:grafana:grafana
  • Every version before 8.5.13
  • From 9.0.0 before 9.0.9
  • From 9.1.0 before 9.1.6
GrafanaServers and applications · github:grafana/grafana
  • Every version before 8.5.13

References

  • NVD https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-35957
  • CVE.org https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-35957
  • GitHub Advisory Database https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-ff5c-938w-8c9q
  • github.com https://github.com/grafana/grafana/security/advisories/GHSA-ff5c-938w-8c9q