# CVE-2022-21703: grafana: Grafana is an open source, feature rich metrics dashboard and graph editor for Graphite, InfluxDB & OpenTSDB

CVE-2022-21703 is fixed in grafana on 1 platform, first by RHSA-2022:7519, released November 8, 2022. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: High.

- Web page: https://patchblox.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-21703
- Priority: High
- CVSS: 8.8 (Moderate)
- EPSS: 0.0228
- CISA KEV: not listed
- Exploited (vendor report): no
- Publicly disclosed: no
- Published: Nov 8, 2022

## Description

Grafana is an open source, feature rich metrics dashboard and graph editor for Graphite, InfluxDB & OpenTSDB.   The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: grafana (7.5.15). (BZ#2055348)  Security Fix(es):  * sanitize-url: XSS due to improper sanitization in sanitizeUrl function (CVE-2021-23648)  * golang: net/http: improper sanitization of Transfer-Encoding header (CVE-2022-1705)  * golang: go/parser: stack exhaustion in all Parse* functions (CVE-2022-1962)  * grafana: Forward OAuth Identity Token can allow users to access some data sources (CVE-2022-21673)  * prometheus/client_golang: Denial of service using InstrumentHandlerCounter (CVE-2022-21698)  * grafana: XSS vulnerability in data source handling (CVE-2022-21702)  * grafana: CSRF vulnerability can lead to privilege escalation (CVE-2022-21703)  * grafana: IDOR vulnerability can lead to information disclosure (CVE-2022-21713)  * golang: encoding/xml: stack exhaustion in Decoder.Skip (CVE-2022-28131)  * golang: io/fs: stack exhaustion in Glob (CVE-2022-30630)  * golang: compress/gzip: stack exhaustion in Reader.Read (CVE-2022-30631)  * golang: path/filepath: stack exhaustion in Glob (CVE-2022-30632)  * golang: encoding/xml: stack exhaustion in Unmarshal (CVE-2022-30633)  * golang: encoding/gob: stack exhaustion in Decoder.Decode (CVE-2022-30635)  * golang: net/http/httputil: NewSingleHostReverseProxy - omit X-Forwarded-For not working (CVE-2022-32148)  For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.  Additional Changes:  For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.7 Release Notes linked from the References section.

## Where it's fixed

| Platform | Product | Fixed in | Fix | Released |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | grafana RHEL 8 | 0:7.5.15-3.el8 | [RHSA-2022:7519](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/rhsa-2022-7519.md) | Nov 8, 2022 |
| Linux | grafana RHEL 9 | 0:7.5.15-3.el9 | [RHSA-2022:8057](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/rhsa-2022-8057.md) | Nov 15, 2022 |
| Linux | grafana almalinux 8 | 7.5.15-3.el8 | [ALSA-2022:7519](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/alsa-2022-7519.md) | Nov 8, 2022 |
| Linux | grafana almalinux 9 | 7.5.15-3.el9 | [ALSA-2022:8057](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/alsa-2022-8057.md) | Nov 15, 2022 |
| Linux | grafana ol 8 | 0:7.5.15-3.el8 | [ELSA-2022-7519](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/elsa-2022-7519.md) | Nov 15, 2022 |
| Linux | grafana ol 9 | 0:7.5.15-3.el9 | [ELSA-2022-8057](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/elsa-2022-8057.md) | Nov 22, 2022 |
| Linux | grafana rocky 8 | 0:7.5.15-3.el8 | [RLSA-2022:7519](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/rlsa-2022-7519.md) | Nov 8, 2022 |
| Linux | grafana rocky 9 | 0:7.5.15-3.el9 | [RLSA-2022:8057](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/rlsa-2022-8057.md) | Nov 15, 2022 |

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