Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessAuthenticate as low-privilege Grafana user
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ExploitIdentify folder with view-only permission
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ExecutionSend library elements API update changing panel folder
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ImpactPanel moved into unauthorized folder
Vulnerability Assessment
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CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V8 - Authorization Authorization logic validation
MITRE ATT&CK
1 technique across 1 tactic: Privilege Escalation The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Exploitation Conditions | Requires a valid authenticated Grafana account that holds edit permission on at least one folder and only view (not create) permission on the destination folder; the attacker exercises the library elements API or the equivalent App Platform resource update path to change a library panel's parent folder. Limiting factors: exploitation is confined to moving the attacker's own panel and cannot read destination-folder data or modify existing content there, so real-world value is very low; it also depends on a folder-level RBAC configuration where the user's permissions differ across folders (typical only in multi-team Grafana instances using folder permissions). |
| Impact | This is a low-severity authorization flaw whose signals are internally consistent and point to genuinely minor real-world risk. The CVSS 3.1 vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N = 4.3) shows the only impact is a limited integrity effect (I:L), with no confidentiality or availability impact, and the description reinforces this: no data from the destination folder is disclosed and existing content cannot be changed - the attacker can only relocate their own library panel into a folder where they hold view-only rights. Exploitation requires PR:L (an existing authenticated account with edit permission on at least one folder), so this is not a pre-auth or privilege-escalation-to-admin issue; it is a within-application boundary violation. No EPSS score, KEV listing, or POC was provided in the input, so exploitation status is: no public exploit identified at time of analysis. There is no conflict among the available signals - low CVSS, narrow impact, and required privileges all agree this is a housekeeping-grade authorization bug, not an urgent priority. The main caveat is that no EPSS/SSVC data was supplied to quantify exploitation likelihood, but given the trivial impact this does not change the assessment. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An authenticated Grafana user who has edit permission on Folder A but only view permission on Folder B uses the library elements API (or the equivalent App Platform resource) to update a library panel's folder, moving it from A into B. Because the update path fails to check library-panel create permission on the destination, the panel lands in B despite the user lacking create rights there. No POC was provided, and the impact is limited to placing the user's own panel where they normally could not create content. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Sep 29, 2026
Incorrect authorization in Grafana's library panel update path allows an authenticated user who holds edit permission on one folder to move a library panel into a different folder where they have only view permission, because the update flow never re-checks create permission on the destination folder. The bug is network-reachable at low complexity with low privileges (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N, 4.3) and produces only a low integrity impact: no destination-folder data is exposed and existing content there cannot be changed or deleted. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, and the issue requires a multi-folder RBAC configuration where a user's rights differ across folders.
RemediationAI
Apply the patched Grafana release named in the vendor advisory at https://grafana.com/security/security-advisories/cve-2026-81842, which is the only reliable fix for the missing destination-folder create-permission check; confirm the specific fixed version there because the supplied CPE data uses wildcard version ranges and no exact fix build is provided. If an immediate upgrade is not possible, reduce exposure by tightening folder-level RBAC so that no account simultaneously holds edit permission on a source folder and view-only permission on a destination folder, or by restricting library panel authoring to a trusted team and removing edit rights from broad groups - the trade-off is reduced self-service collaboration for teams that legitimately share panels across folders. Grafana Enterprise operators can also enable audit logging on library element and folder operations to detect unexpected panel moves, though this is detective rather than preventive and adds log volume. Because exploitation requires an authenticated, already-privileged user and yields only the ability to misplace their own panel, the risk of deferring the upgrade is low, but permission hygiene should still be reviewed.
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Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Technical ContextAI · show details
Grafana library panels are reusable, folder-scoped panel definitions managed through the library elements API and the equivalent App Platform resource; update operations change the parent folder pointer of an existing element. The vulnerability is CWE-863 (Incorrect Authorization): the update path validated the caller's edit rights on the panel's current folder but omitted a create-permission check against the destination folder, letting a user with edit-only rights on folder A place a panel into folder B where they hold view-only rights. The flaw is a pure authorization-logic gap in the RBAC enforcement layer rather than a memory-safety or injection issue, and it is bounded because the operation returns no data from the destination folder and cannot mutate existing destination content. Affected CPEs cover both Grafana OSS (cpe:2.3:a:grafana:grafana_oss) and Grafana Enterprise (cpe:2.3:a:grafana:grafana_enterprise) with wildcard version ranges, so the defect exists wherever library panels and folder-level permissions are enabled, though practical value is limited to installations where users hold divergent permissions across folders.
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Severity by source
AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Authenticated low-privilege user (PR:L) over the API (AV:N/AC:L) causes only a limited integrity effect (I:L) by misplacing a panel; no confidentiality or availability impact.
Primary rating from Vendor (GRAFANA).
CVSS VectorVendor: GRAFANA
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2DescriptionCVE.org
An authenticated user with edit permission on one folder can move a library panel into another folder where they only have view permission, through the library elements API or the equivalent App Platform resource. The update path did not check library panel create permission on the destination folder (incorrect authorization). No data from the destination folder is disclosed, and existing content there cannot be changed.
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Attack Technique
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Same weakness CWE-863 – Incorrect Authorization
View allSame technique Authentication Bypass
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SUSE
Severity: Moderate| Product | Status |
|---|---|
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Package Hub 15 SP7 | Affected |
| SUSE Multi-Linux Manager Client Tools for SLE 15 | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Package Hub 15 SP4 | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Package Hub 15 SP5 | Affected |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Package Hub 15 SP6 | Affected |
| openSUSE Leap 15.3 | Affected |
| openSUSE Leap 15.4 | Affected |
| openSUSE Leap 15.5 | Affected |
| openSUSE Leap 15.6 | Affected |
| SUSE Multi Linux Manager Tools SLE-15 | Affected |
| ses/7.1/ceph/grafana ses/7/ceph/grafana suse/multi-linux-manager/5.2/x86_64/monitoring-grafana | Affected |
EUVD-2026-89460
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