CVE-2022-39328
Grafana vulnerable to race condition allowing privilege escalation
Grafana is an open-source platform for monitoring and observability. Versions starting with 9.2.0 and less than 9.2.4 contain a race condition in the authentication middlewares logic which may allow an unauthenticated user to query an administration endpoint under heavy load. This issue is patched in 9.2.4. There are no known workarounds.
Attack profile
How easy it is to exploit
- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- None
- User interaction
- None
What an attacker can affect
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- High
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
CVE List Score used
9.8
Grafana vulnerable to race condition allowing privilege escalation
Grafana is an open-source platform for monitoring and observability. Versions starting with 9.2.0 and less than 9.2.4 contain a race condition in the authentication middlewares logic which may allow an unauthenticated user to query an administration endpoint under heavy load. This issue is patched in 9.2.4. There are no known workarounds.
- Record
CVE-2022-39328- CVSS 3.1
- 9.8 Critical
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - Weakness
- CWE-362
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2024-1814
9.8
Grafana is an open-source platform for monitoring and observability. Versions starting with 9.2.0 and less than 9.2.4 contain a race condition in the authentication middlewares logic which may allow an unauthenticated user to query an administration endpoint under heavy load. This issue is patched in 9.2.4. There are no known workarounds.
- Record
EUVD-2024-1814- CVSS 3.1
- 9.8 Critical
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - Updated
- 2026-11-02
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-vqc4-mpj8-jxch
9.3
Grafana Race condition allowing privilege escalation
Today we are releasing Grafana 9.2.4. Alongside other bug fixes, this patch release includes critical security fixes for CVE-2022-39328.
Release 9.2.4, latest patch, also containing security fix:
Appropriate patches have been applied to Grafana Cloud and as always, we closely coordinated with all cloud providers licensed to offer Grafana Pro. They have received early notification under embargo and confirmed that their offerings are secure at the time of this announcement. This is applicable to Amazon Managed Grafana and Azure Managed Grafana as a service offering.
Privilege escalation
Summary
Internal security audit identified a race condition in the Grafana codebase, which allowed an unauthenticated user to query an arbitrary endpoint in Grafana. A race condition in the HTTP context creation could make a HTTP request being assigned the authentication/authorization middlewares of another call. Under heavy load it is possible that a call protected by a privileged middleware receives instead the middleware of a public query. As a result, an unauthenticated user can successfully query protected endpoints.
The CVSS score for this vulnerability is 9.8 Critical
Impact
Unauthenticated users can query arbitrary endpoints with malicious intent.
Impacted versions
All installations for Grafana versions >=9.2.x.
Solutions and mitigations
To fully address CVE-2022-39328, please upgrade your Grafana instances. Appropriate patches have been applied to Grafana Cloud.
Reporting security issues
If you think you have found a security vulnerability, please send a report to [email protected]. This address can be used for all of Grafana Labs' open source and commercial products (including, but not limited to Grafana, Grafana Cloud, Grafana Enterprise, and grafana.com). We can accept only vulnerability reports at this address. We would prefer that you encrypt your message to us by using our PGP key. The key fingerprint is
F988 7BEA 027A 049F AE8E 5CAA D125 8932 BE24 C5CA
The key is available from keyserver.ubuntu.com.
Security announcements
We maintain a security category on our blog, where we will always post a summary, remediation, and mitigation details for any patch containing security fixes.
You can also subscribe to our RSS feed.
- Record
GHSA-vqc4-mpj8-jxch- CVSS 4.0
- 9.3 Critical
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N - CVSS 3.1
- 9.8 Critical
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - Weakness
- CWE-362
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
NVD
9.8
Grafana is an open-source platform for monitoring and observability. Versions starting with 9.2.0 and less than 9.2.4 contain a race condition in the authentication middlewares logic which may allow an unauthenticated user to query an administration endpoint under heavy load. This issue is patched in 9.2.4. There are no known workarounds.
- Record
CVE-2022-39328- CVSS 3.1
- 9.8 Critical
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - CVSS 3.1
- 8.1 High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - Weakness
- CWE-362
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSV
9.8
Grafana vulnerable to race condition allowing privilege escalation
Grafana is an open-source platform for monitoring and observability. Versions starting with 9.2.0 and less than 9.2.4 contain a race condition in the authentication middlewares logic which may allow an unauthenticated user to query an administration endpoint under heavy load. This issue is patched in 9.2.4. There are no known workarounds.
- Record
CVE-2022-39328- CVSS 3.1
- 9.8 Critical
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - Weakness
- CWE-362
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSVGHSA-vqc4-mpj8-jxch
9.3
Grafana Race condition allowing privilege escalation
Today we are releasing Grafana 9.2.4. Alongside other bug fixes, this patch release includes critical security fixes for CVE-2022-39328.
Release 9.2.4, latest patch, also containing security fix:
Appropriate patches have been applied to Grafana Cloud and as always, we closely coordinated with all cloud providers licensed to offer Grafana Pro. They have received early notification under embargo and confirmed that their offerings are secure at the time of this announcement. This is applicable to Amazon Managed Grafana and Azure Managed Grafana as a service offering.
Privilege escalation
Summary
Internal security audit identified a race condition in the Grafana codebase, which allowed an unauthenticated user to query an arbitrary endpoint in Grafana. A race condition in the HTTP context creation could make a HTTP request being assigned the authentication/authorization middlewares of another call. Under heavy load it is possible that a call protected by a privileged middleware receives instead the middleware of a public query. As a result, an unauthenticated user can successfully query protected endpoints.
The CVSS score for this vulnerability is 9.8 Critical
Impact
Unauthenticated users can query arbitrary endpoints with malicious intent.
Impacted versions
All installations for Grafana versions >=9.2.x.
Solutions and mitigations
To fully address CVE-2022-39328, please upgrade your Grafana instances. Appropriate patches have been applied to Grafana Cloud.
Reporting security issues
If you think you have found a security vulnerability, please send a report to [email protected]. This address can be used for all of Grafana Labs' open source and commercial products (including, but not limited to Grafana, Grafana Cloud, Grafana Enterprise, and grafana.com). We can accept only vulnerability reports at this address. We would prefer that you encrypt your message to us by using our PGP key. The key fingerprint is
F988 7BEA 027A 049F AE8E 5CAA D125 8932 BE24 C5CA
The key is available from keyserver.ubuntu.com.
Security announcements
We maintain a security category on our blog, where we will always post a summary, remediation, and mitigation details for any patch containing security fixes.
You can also subscribe to our RSS feed.
- Record
GHSA-vqc4-mpj8-jxch- CVSS 4.0
- 9.3 Critical
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N - CVSS 3.1
- 9.8 Critical
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - Weakness
- CWE-362
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSVUBUNTU-CVE-2022-39328
9.8
Grafana is an open-source platform for monitoring and observability. Versions starting with 9.2.0 and less than 9.2.4 contain a race condition in the authentication middlewares logic which may allow an unauthenticated user to query an administration endpoint under heavy load. This issue is patched in 9.2.4. There are no known workarounds.
- Record
UBUNTU-CVE-2022-39328- CVSS 3.1
- 9.8 Critical
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - CVSS 3.1
- 8.1 High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSVBIT-grafana-2022-39328 No score
Grafana vulnerable to race condition allowing privilege escalation
Grafana is an open-source platform for monitoring and observability. Versions starting with 9.2.0 and less than 9.2.4 contain a race condition in the authentication middlewares logic which may allow an unauthenticated user to query an administration endpoint under heavy load. This issue is patched in 9.2.4. There are no known workarounds.
- Record
BIT-grafana-2022-39328- Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSVGO-2024-2856 No score
Grafana Race condition allowing privilege escalation in github.com/grafana/grafana
Grafana Race condition allowing privilege escalation in github.com/grafana/grafana.
NOTE: The source advisory for this report contains additional versions that could not be automatically mapped to standard Go module versions.
(If this is causing false-positive reports from vulnerability scanners, please suggest an edit to the report.)
The additional affected modules and versions are: github.com/grafana/grafana from v9.2.0 before v9.2.4.
- Record
GO-2024-2856- Updated
- 2026-11-02
Affected products
Affected packages
| Package | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|
github.com/grafana/grafanaGo |
9.2.0 up to 9.2.4 | 9.2.4 |
grafanaBitnami |
9.2.0 up to 9.2.4 | 9.2.4 |
github.com/grafana/grafanaGo |
All versions | None known |
grafanaUbuntu:16.04:LTS |
All versions, plus listed versions 2.6.0+dfsg-1 |
None known |
History
| Recorded | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| first indexed | CVE List, EUVD, GitHub Advisories, NVD, OSV |
Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.
In short
CVE-2022-39328 is a critical vulnerability (CVSS 9.8) in Grafana, published November 8, 2022. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 1.30%, the 70th percentile. Fixed in github.com/grafana/grafana 9.2.4.
References
github.com/grafana/grafana/security/advisories/GHSA-vqc4-mpj8-jxch
security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20221215-0003
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-39328
github.com/advisories/GHSA-vqc4-mpj8-jxch
github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/39xxx/CVE-2022-39328.json
github.com/grafana/grafana
ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-39328
cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-39328