CVE-2022-44643: Access policy with access to all tenants and using label selectors has more access

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2022-12-20 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-284

Description

A vulnerability in the label-based access control of Grafana Labs Grafana Enterprise Metrics allows an attacker more access than intended. If an access policy which has label selector restrictions also has been granted access to all tenants in the system, the label selector restrictions will not be applied when using this policy with the affected versions of the software. This issue affects: Grafana Labs Grafana Enterprise Metrics GEM 1.X versions prior to 1.7.1 on AMD64; GEM 2.X versions prior to 2.3.1 on AMD64.

Affected products

Grafana Enterprise Metrics: from 1.0.0 before 1.7.1; from 2.0.0 before 2.3.1 — fixed in 1.7.1, 2.3.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Grafana Enterprise Metrics 1.7.1, 2.3.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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