Grafana up to 12.0.2 redirect

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability marked as problematic has been reported in Grafana up to 11.3.8/11.4.6/11.5.6/11.6.3/12.0.2. This issue affects some unknown processing. The manipulation leads to redirect. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2025-6023. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available. To fix this issue, it is recommended to deploy a patch.

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A vulnerability was found in Grafana up to 11.3.8/11.4.6/11.5.6/11.6.3/12.0.2 and classified as problematic. This issue affects an unknown code. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a redirect vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-601. A web application accepts a user-controlled input that specifies a link to an external site, and uses that link in a Redirect. This simplifies phishing attacks. Impacted is integrity. The summary by CVE is:

An open redirect vulnerability has been identified in Grafana OSS that can be exploited to achieve XSS attacks. The vulnerability was introduced in Grafana v11.5.0. The open redirect can be chained with path traversal vulnerabilities to achieve XSS. Fixed in versions 12.0.2+security-01, 11.6.3+security-01, 11.5.6+security-01, 11.4.6+security-01 and 11.3.8+security-01

The weakness was shared by Hoa X. Nguyen. It is possible to read the advisory at grafana.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2025-6023 since 06/12/2025. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1204.001 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 242625 (Grafana Labs XSS (CVE-2025-6023)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Applying the patch 11.3.8+security-01/11.4.6+security-01/11.5.6+security-01/11.6.3+security-01/12.0.2+security-01 is able to eliminate this problem.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (242625), EUVD (EUVD-2025-21861) and CERT Bund (WID-SEC-2025-1593). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

Affected

• SUSE Linux
• SUSE openSUSE
• Grafana Grafana

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Name

• Grafana

Version

• 11.3.0
• 11.3.1
• 11.3.2
• 11.3.3
• 11.3.4
• 11.3.5
• 11.3.6
• 11.3.7
• 11.3.8
• 11.4.0
• 11.4.1
• 11.4.2
• 11.4.3
• 11.4.4
• 11.4.5
• 11.4.6
• 11.5.0
• 11.5.1
• 11.5.2
• 11.5.3
• 11.5.4
• 11.5.5
• 11.5.6
• 11.6.0
• 11.6.1
• 11.6.2
• 11.6.3
• 12.0.0
• 12.0.1
• 12.0.2

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• open-source

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