Medium
Security advisory
The team sync HTTP API in Grafana Enterprise 7.4.x before 7.4.5 has an Incorrect Access Control issue. On Grafana instances using an external authentication service, this vulnerability allows any authenticated user to add external groups to existing teams. This can be used to grant a user team permissions that the user isn't supposed to have.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2021-28146
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 07:49 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
The team sync HTTP API in Grafana Enterprise 7.4.x before 7.4.5 has an Incorrect Access Control issue. On Grafana instances using an external authentication service, this vulnerability allows any authenticated user to add external groups to existing teams. This can be used to grant a user team permissions that the user isn't supposed to have.
osv:CVE-2021-28146
Complete source record
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"references": [
"https://community.grafana.com/t/grafana-enterprise-6-7-6-7-3-10-and-7-4-5-security-update/44724",
"https://community.grafana.com/t/release-notes-v6-7-x/27119",
"https://grafana.com/blog/2021/03/18/grafana-6.7.6-7.3.10-and-7.4.5-released-with-important-security-fixes-for-grafana-enterprise/",
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"https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/release-notes/release-notes-7-4-5/",
"https://grafana.com/products/enterprise/",
"https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/03/19/5"
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