Security readout for executives and security teams
Plain-English summary
Certain Grafana 8.x and 9.x versions can store unsafe content in Unified Alerting. A lower-privileged editor could use it to target an authenticated admin and potentially gain admin privileges. This matters most where Grafana has multiple users and admins routinely review alerting content.
Executive priority
Treat as high priority where Grafana is multi-user or supports critical monitoring. The risk is privilege escalation to admin, but exploitation requires prior editor access and admin interaction.
Technical view
CVE-2022-31097 is a CWE-79 stored XSS in Grafana Unified Alerting. A low-privileged editor can trigger admin interaction and potentially escalate to admin. Affected versions are before 9.0.3, 8.5.9, 8.4.10, and 8.3.10. CVSS is 7.3 high.
Likely exposure
Exposure is likely in self-managed Grafana deployments on affected 8.x or 9.x versions using Unified Alerting with editor-level users and authenticated admins.
Exploitation context
The sources describe privilege escalation from editor to admin requiring an authenticated admin to click a link. The bundle marks KEV as false, and no cited source here confirms active exploitation.
Researcher notes
Evidence supports affected branches, fixed versions, CVSS, CWE, and workaround. The provided sources do not establish active exploitation. Avoid production payload testing; validate through version, feature configuration, role exposure, and vendor-fixed release deployment.
Mitigation direction
- Upgrade Grafana to 9.0.3, 8.5.9, 8.4.10, 8.3.10, or later supported releases.
- If immediate upgrade is blocked, disable alerting or use legacy alerting as the stated workaround.
- Restrict editor access until patched, especially in shared or externally administered Grafana environments.
- Review Grafana and dependent vendor guidance for product-specific packaging or support notes.
Validation and detection
- Inventory Grafana instances and confirm installed versions against the affected ranges.
- Confirm whether Unified Alerting is enabled on vulnerable instances.
- Review editor-level user access and reduce unnecessary privileges before remediation completes.
- Check recent alerting changes and admin privilege changes for unexpected activity.
Public sources used
Generated from the cited source records. This long-tail analysis has not been individually reviewed by a named human.
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Open ATT&CK lookup- Severity
- High
- CVSS
- 7.3 (3.1)
- Known Exploited
- No
- Published
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
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CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N2.15.2Primary CVE scoreVulnerability scoring details
Base CVSS 3.1 score
7.3HighVector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Source materials
- CVE List V5 sourceCVE List V5
- https://github.com/grafana/grafana/security/advisories/GHSA-vw7q-p2qg-4m5fCVE reference · x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/release-notes/release-notes-9-0-3/CVE reference · x_refsource_MISC
- https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/next/release-notes/release-notes-8-4-10/CVE reference · x_refsource_MISC
- https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/release-notes/release-notes-8-5-9/CVE reference · x_refsource_MISC
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220901-0010/CVE reference · x_refsource_CONFIRM
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Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') represents a recurring weakness pattern that can create exploitable paths when design, validation, or implementation controls are missing.