Administrative lockout via unchecked user deletion
Published May 23, 2025 · Updated Jul 17, 2025
Improper access control in Grafana allows remote authenticated users with organization-admin rights to delete a server administrator. The DELETE /api/org/users/ handler removes a user from the organization and then deletes that user system-wide when no other organization membership remains, without protecting server-admin status. Exploitation requires organization-admin access and a server administrator with no other organization membership; deleting the only one leaves the instance unmanageable.
Summary
What happened
Improper access control in Grafana allows remote authenticated users with organization-admin rights to delete a server administrator. The DELETE /api/org/users/ handler removes a user from the organization and then deletes that user system-wide when no other organization membership remains, without protecting server-admin status. Exploitation requires organization-admin access and a server administrator with no other organization membership; deleting the only one leaves the instance unmanageable.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2025-3580
- Published
- May 23, 2025
- Updated
- Jul 17, 2025
- Vendor
- Grafana Labs
- Product
- Grafana
- Classifications
- CWE-284, T1531
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- admin
Timeline
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- May 23, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Jul 17, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=10.4.18 <10.4.19
- Affected versionversion=11.2.9 <11.2.10
- Affected versionversion=11.3.6 <11.3.7
- Affected versionversion=11.4.4 <11.4.5
- Affected versionversion=11.5.4 <11.5.5
- Affected versionversion=11.6.1 <11.6.2
- Affected versionversion=12.0.0 <12.0.1
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