CVE-2022-36062

Grafana folders admin only permission privilege escalation

LOW
3.8
CVSS Score
Published: September 22, 2022 at 12:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 04:52 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorGrafana

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Severity
LOW3.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.7%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

Grafana is an open-source platform for monitoring and observability. In versions prior to 8.5.13, 9.0.9, and 9.1.6, Grafana is subject to Improper Preservation of Permissions resulting in privilege escalation on some folders where Admin is the only used permission. The vulnerability impacts Grafana instances where RBAC was disabled and enabled afterwards, as the migrations which are translating legacy folder permissions to RBAC permissions do not account for the scenario where the only user permission in the folder is Admin, as a result RBAC adds permissions for Editors and Viewers which allow them to edit and view folders accordingly. This issue has been patched in versions 8.5.13, 9.0.9, and 9.1.6. A workaround when the impacted folder/dashboard is known is to remove the additional permissions manually.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

v < 8.5.13v < 9.0.9v < 9.1.69.0.0 ≤ v < 9.0.99.1.0 ≤ v < 9.1.6
Affected range stops below 8.5.13, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 9.0.9, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 9.1.6, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatableTotal impact

SSVC signals action urgency (what to patch first), separate from CVSS which measures severity.

CVSS

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
LOW
Integrity
LOW
Availability
NONE
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-281

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