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CVE-2018-18623 json

Grafana XSS in Dashboard Text Panel

published 6y ago modified 4mo ago also GHSA-cmq2-j8v8-2q44 , GO-2022-0342 , EUVD-2024-0336

cvss
6.1
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.8%
EPSS 1.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 78%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Grafana 5.3.1 has XSS via the "Dashboard > Text Panel" screen. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2018-12099.

Patch / fix

  • go github.com/grafana/grafana 6.0.0-beta1, 6.0.0-beta1+incompatible
  • grafana ceph storage 3 5.2.4-1.el7cp

red hat advisories RHSA-2019:0019

  • kibana OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 9, OpenStack Cloud 9 4.6.6-4.9.2
  • grafana OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 9, OpenStack Cloud 9 6.7.4-3.23.2
  • cassandra OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 9, OpenStack Cloud 9 3.11.10-3.3.3
  • python-py OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 9, OpenStack Cloud 9 1.5.4-3.3.2
  • ardana-swift OpenStack Cloud 9 9.0+git.1618235096.90974ed-3.10.2
  • ardana-neutron OpenStack Cloud 9 9.0+git.1615223676.777f0b3-3.25.2
  • openstack-nova OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 9, OpenStack Cloud 9 18.3.1~dev82-3.37.6
  • python-Django1 OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 9, OpenStack Cloud 9 1.11.29-3.25.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2021:1962-1SUSE-SU-2021:1233-1SUSE-SU-2020:3309-1SUSE-SU-2020:2911-1SUSE-SU-2020:2876-1

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2018-18623 updated cvss 6.1

grafana: XSS vulnerability via the "Dashboard > Text Panel" screen

  • Red Hat Ceph Storage 2 grafana
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11 openshift3/grafana
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat Storage 3 grafana
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Ceph Storage 3.2 Tools grafana 5.2.4-1.el7cp
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2019:0019
  • Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 1 servicemesh-grafana, servicemesh-grafana-prometheus Red Hat Ceph Storage 4 rhceph/rhceph-4-dashboard-rhel8 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 grafana, grafana-loki, grafana-mssql, grafana-mysql, grafana-selinux, grafana-graphite, +8 more Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 openshift4/ose-grafana
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.81% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 78% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/11813 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • github.com https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/15293 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 6.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
GitHub 3.1 6.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
go github.com/grafana/grafana
<6.0.0-beta1
<6.0.0-beta1+incompatible
6.0.0-beta1
6.0.0-beta1+incompatible

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

References

Sources

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