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Grafana Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Dashboard Editing

Vulnerability

A vulnerability exists in Grafana that allows an Editor to overwrite a dashboard not owned by them, thereby gaining admin privileges on that specific dashboard. This issue arises because the user must have write access to the dashboard to escalate privileges.

Impact

Exploitation of this vulnerability allows for unauthorized privilege escalation, granting an Editor admin rights on a dashboard they do not own.

Added: May 13, 2026, 8:28 PM
Updated: May 13, 2026, 8:28 PM

Vulnerability Rating

Custom Algorithm
spread
6.2
impact
0.6
exploitability
5.2
remediation
0.0
relevance
8.2
threat
0.0
urgency
2.9
incentive
0.0

Our algorithm analyzes dozens of metrics to generate these 8 key vulnerability categories, which are then combined to calculate the overall risk score.