What is CVE-2022-35957?

CVE-2022-35957 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Grafana, classified under Authentication Bypass by Spoofing. CVSS score: 6.6/10. Published 2022-09-20.

How severe is CVE-2022-35957?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.6 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Grafana

CVE-2022-35957

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 the instructions at: https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/setup-grafana/configure-security/configure-authentication/auth-proxy/

EPSS: 0.014 (68.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.6 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Grafana — versions > 9.0.0, < 9.1.6, < 8.5.13
Fedoraproject Fedora — versions 37

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-290 — Authentication Bypass by Spoofing

References

security-advisories@github.com (Vendor Advisory)
security-advisories@github.com (vendor-advisory)
security-advisories@github.com (Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-35957?: CVE-2022-35957 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Grafana, classified under Authentication Bypass by Spoofing. CVSS score: 6.6/10. Published 2022-09-20.
How severe is CVE-2022-35957?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.6 out of 10.