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    GHSA-xw5p-hw8j-xg4q

    Published: 1 Mar 2023Last Modified: 7 Aug 2026

    Summary: Grafana vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting

    Details: Grafana is an open-source platform for monitoring and observability. Starting with the 7.0 branch, Grafana had a stored XSS vulnerability in the trace view visualization. The stored XSS vulnerability was possible due the value of a span's attributes/resources were not properly sanitized and this will be rendered when the span's attributes/resources are expanded. An attacker needs to have the Editor role in order to change the value of a trace view visualization to contain JavaScript. This means that vertical privilege escalation is possible, where a user with Editor role can change to a known password for a user having Admin role if the user with Admin role executes malicious JavaScript viewing a dashboard. Users may upgrade to version 8.5.21, 9.2.13 and 9.3.8 to receive a fix.

    References: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-0594, https://github.com/grafana/grafana, https://grafana.com/security/security-advisories/cve-2023-0594

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: github.com/grafana/grafana

    Purl: pkg:golang/github.com/grafana/grafana

    Affected ranges

    Type: SEMVER

    Events:

    Introduced- 7.0.0
    Fixed -8.5.21

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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