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SCA: security update for github.com/grafana/grafana (GHSA-7rqg-hjwc-6mjf)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 412254

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - Grafana is an open-source platform for monitoring and observability. On 2023-01-01 during an internal
 audit of Grafana, a member of the security team found a stored XSS vulnerability affecting the core plugin
 "Text". The stored XSS vulnerability requires several user interactions in order to be fully exploited.
 The vulnerability was possible due to React's render cycle that will pass though the unsanitized HTML
 code, but in the next cycle the HTML is cleaned up and saved in Grafana's database. An attacker needs to
 have the Editor role in order to change a Text panel to include JavaScript. Another user needs to edit the
 same Text panel, and click on "Markdown" or "HTML" for the code to be executed. 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. This
 issue has been patched in versions 9.2.10 and 9.3.4. (CVE-2023-22462)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-7rqg-hjwc-6mjf

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 412254

Version: Revision 1.6

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.3

Percentile: 9.14

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-22462

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/1/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/1/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-22462

cwe: CWE-79