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Plain-English summary
This flaw can accidentally expand access to restricted Grafana folders after RBAC migration. Folders intended to be Admin-only may become viewable or editable by lower-privileged users. The business risk is unauthorized dashboard visibility or changes in monitoring data, depending on folder contents and who has Viewer or Editor roles.
Executive priority
Prioritize remediation on Grafana instances containing sensitive operational, security, or customer-impacting dashboards. This is not cited as actively exploited, but it can weaken segregation of duties and expose monitoring intelligence or permit unauthorized dashboard changes by authenticated users.
Technical view
CVE-2022-36062 is a Grafana permission-preservation issue affecting versions before 8.5.13, 9.0.9, and 9.1.6. When RBAC was disabled and later enabled, migration logic could translate Admin-only legacy folder permissions into RBAC permissions that also grant Viewer and Editor access. CVSS is 7.6 high, CWE-281.
Likely exposure
Exposure is limited to affected Grafana versions where RBAC was disabled and then enabled. The key high-risk condition is folders or dashboards that previously had only Admin permissions. Public or internal network reachability matters, but sources require a low-privileged authenticated user.
Exploitation context
The source bundle does not cite active exploitation, and CISA KEV status is false. The vulnerability is authenticated privilege escalation, not unauthenticated remote compromise. Abuse would depend on existing Viewer or Editor users gaining unintended access through incorrect migrated permissions.
Researcher notes
The narrow trigger condition is important: affected version plus RBAC disable-enable migration plus Admin-only legacy folder permissions. Sources name a manual permission cleanup workaround only when impacted folders or dashboards are known. Evidence does not support broader affected products beyond Grafana from the supplied bundle.
Mitigation direction
- Upgrade Grafana to 8.5.13, 9.0.9, 9.1.6, or later supported versions.
- Identify impacted Admin-only folders and dashboards after RBAC migration.
- Manually remove unintended Viewer or Editor permissions where affected content is known.
- Check Grafana's advisory for any later vendor guidance before closing remediation.
Validation and detection
- Inventory Grafana versions and flag instances below 8.5.13, 9.0.9, or 9.1.6.
- Determine whether RBAC was disabled and later enabled on each instance.
- Review folder and dashboard permissions for unintended Viewer or Editor entries.
- Confirm Admin-only folders remain inaccessible to non-admin test accounts.
- Document remediation evidence and affected permission objects for audit tracking.
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- High
- CVSS
- 7.6 (3.1)
- Known Exploited
- No
- Published
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L
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CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L2.84.7Primary CVE scoreVulnerability scoring details
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7.6HighVector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L
Source materials
- CVE List V5 sourceCVE List V5
- https://github.com/grafana/grafana/security/advisories/GHSA-p978-56hq-r492CVE reference
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20221215-0001/CVE reference
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Improper Preservation of Permissions
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