BAC in Snapshot API allows deletion of unauthorized dashboard snapshots

Any Editor could delete any snapshot, even if they have no access to read or write them...

Grafana Testdata datasource can issue unbounded memory allocations

A testdata data-source can be used to trigger out-of-memory crashes in Grafana...

Unauthenticated DoS in avatar cache in Grafana

Grafana is an open-source platform for monitoring and observability. The platform supports users having their own avatars, which can be sourced from the Gravatar service API. This uses a cache, to ensure that we don’t overload the service. If these requests time out after 3 seconds, a Goroutine i...

Grafana plugin resources can lead to unbounded memory allocation

A request to the Grafana plugin resources endpoint can cause unbounded memory allocation by reading the entire request body into memory. An authenticated user can exploit this to trigger an out-of-memory condition, potentially causing a denial of service...

Information Leakage in Grafana Alerting

In Grafana’s alerting system, users with edit permissions for a contact point, specifically the permissions “alert.notifications:write” or “alert.notifications.receivers:test” that are granted as part of the fixed role “Contact Point Writer”, which is part of the basic role Editor - can edit...

Missing Protected-field Authorization in Provisioning Contact Points API

A vulnerability has been discovered in Grafana OSS where an authorization bypass in the provisioning contact points API allows users with Editor role to modify protected webhook URLs without the required alert.notifications.receivers.protected:write permission...

Exposure of Storage Secret in Pyroscope

Pyroscope is an open-source continuous profiling database. The database supports various storage backends, including Tencent Cloud Object Storage COS. If the database is configured to use Tencent COS as the storage backend, an attacker could extract the secretkey configuration value from the...

RCE on Grafana via sqlExpressions

A chained attack via SQL Expressions and a Grafana Enterprise plugin can lead to a remote arbitrary code execution impact RCE. This is enabled by a feature in Grafana OSS, so all users are always recommended to update to avoid future attack vectors going this path. Only instances with the...

SSRF in Infinity Datasource Plugin

Grafana is an open-source platform for monitoring and observability. The Infinity datasource plugin, maintained by Grafana Labs, allows visualizing data from JSON, CSV, XML, GraphQL, and HTML endpoints. If the plugin was configured to allow only certain URLs, an attacker could bypass this...

Very long unicode dashboard title can hang the frontend

In Grafana, an excessively long dashboard title or panel name will cause Chromium browsers to become unresponsive due to Improper Input Validation vulnerability in Grafana. This issue affects Grafana: before 11.6.2 and is fixed in 11.6.2 and higher. Credits: Jinay Patel and Shrey Shah for...

Auth Proxy IPv6 whitelist bypass

When using an IPv6 allow-list for the Auth Proxy feature, it defaults to /32 addresses. Addresses specifying a mask explicitly are not affected; to mitigate easily, add the desired mask usually /128 to the addresses. Only auth proxy is affected; Okta, SAML, LDAP, etc are unaffected here...

Grafana Data Source Plugin: DoS (OOM) via Negative Interval Injection in $__timeGroup Macro

Using the $timeGroup macro, one can achieve an OOM by overloading the server. This requires a SQL datasource. If the server is set up to auto-restart, the impact is minimal or non-existent, as the attack can take upwards of half an hour to crash the server...

Grafana Loki Path Traversal - CVE-2021-36156 Bypass

The CVE-2021-36156 fix validates the namespace parameter for path traversal sequences after a single URL decode, by double encoding, an attacker can read files at the Ruler API endpoint /loki/api/v1/rules/namespace Thanks to Prasanth Sundararajan for reporting this vulnerability...

Incorrect privilege assignment

SCIM provisioning was introduced in Grafana Enterprise and Grafana Cloud in April to improve how organizations manage users and teams in Grafana by introducing automated user lifecycle management. In Grafana versions 12.x where SCIM provisioning is enabled and configured, a vulnerability in user...

OpenFeature evaluation API reads input data with no bounds

The OpenFeature feature toggle evaluation endpoint reads unbounded values into memory, which can cause out-of-memory crashes...

User with permissions to create a data source can CRUD all data sources

A user with the permissions to create a data source can use Grafana API to create a data source with UID set to . Doing this will grant the user access to read, query, edit and delete all data sources within the organization. Impacted Versions: 8.5.0 9.5.7 10.0.0 10.0.12 10.1.0 10.1.8 10.2.0 10.2...

Authorization bypass in Grafana datasource deletion

A time-of-create-to-time-of-use TOCTOU vulnerability lets recently deleted-then-recreated data sources be re-deleted without permission to do so. This requires several very stringent conditions to be met: The attacker must have admin access to the specific datasource prior to its first deletion...

Public dashboards discloses all direct mode datasources

When using public dashboards and direct data-sources, all direct data-sources’ passwords are exposed despite not being used in dashboards. No passwords of proxied data-sources are exposed. We encourage all direct data-sources to be converted to proxied data-sources as far as possible to improve...

XSS in Grafana Explore stack trace

Stack traces in Grafana’s Explore Traces view can be rendered as raw HTML, and thus inject malicious JavaScript in the browser. This would require malicious JavaScript to be entered into the stack trace field. Only datasources with the Jaeger HTTP API appear to be affected; Jaeger gRPC and Tempo ...

Cross-dashboard privilege escalation via permission management

Grafana is an open-source platform for monitoring and observability. The platform supports creating dashboards, which collate various visualisation panels onto one plane. These can have per-user permissions. If a user has permission management rights on one dashboard, they could edit the...

CVE-2025-3717

Grafana is an open-source platform for monitoring and observability. The Grafana-Snowflake-Datasource is a plugin allowing Grafana to visualize data from Snowflake Versions between 1.5.0 and 1.14.0 are vulnerable to a bug when Oauth passthrough is enabled, and multiple users are using the same...

SSRF in CSV Datasource Plugin

Grafana is an open-source platform for monitoring and observability. The CSV datasource plugin is a Grafana Labs maintained plugin that allows for retrieving and processing CSV data from a remote endpoint configured by an administrator. If this plugin was configured to send requests to a bare hos...

IDOR in Annotations API allows unprivileged users to DELETE annotation

Editors could delete any annotation, even those they do not have read access to. The editor user cannot create or read the annotations...

Grafana MSSQL Data Source Plugin: Restriction Bypass Leading to OOM DoS

The Grafana MSSQL data source plugin contains a logic flaw that allows a low-privileged user Viewer to bypass API restrictions and trigger a catastrophic Out-Of-Memory OOM memory exhaustion, crashing the host container. Thanks to khanmarshal for reporting this vulnerability to us via our bug boun...

Org admin can delete pending invites in different org

Organization admins can delete pending invites created in an organization they are not part of...

Data source and plugin proxy endpoints leaking authentication tokens to some destination plugins

Grafana is an open source observability and data visualization platform. Versions of Grafana for endpoints prior to 9.1.8 and 8.5.14 could leak authentication tokens to some destination plugins under some conditions. The vulnerability impacts data source and plugin proxy endpoints with...

Users can generate Service Account tokens after permissions removal

When a user’s access to mint tokens for a service account is revoked, it is sometimes still possible to do so for a few seconds after the event. The user will eventually lose access to do this...

CVE-2025-41116

Grafana is an open-source platform for monitoring and observability. The Grafana-Databricks-Datasource is a plugin allowing Grafana to visualize data from Databricks Enterprise Versions between 1.6.0 and 1.12.0 are vulnerable to a bug when Oauth passthrough is enabled, and multiple users are usin...

XSS in Grafana XY Chart Plugin

The built-in XY Chart plugin is vulnerable to a DOM XSS vulnerability. A user with Editor permissions is able to modify such a panel in order to make it execute arbitrary JavaScript. This vulnerability first appeared in Grafana v11.1.0, and is fixed in 11.6.0+security-01, 11.5.3+security-01,...

Grafana alerting wrong permission on datasource rule write endpoint

In Grafana, the wrong permission is applied to the alert rule write API endpoint, allowing users with permission to write external alert instances to also write alert rules. This vulnerability first appeared in Grafana v8.5.0, and is fixed in v11.2.1, v11.1.6, v11.0.5, v10.4.9, and v10.3.10...

Public Dashboards time range restriction on annotations can be bypassed

Public dashboards with annotations enabled did not limit their annotation timerange to the locked timerange of the public dashboard. This means one could read the entire history of annotations visible on the specific dashboard, even those outside the locked timerange. This did not leak any...

Grafana Open Redirect in Organization Switching

An open redirect vulnerability has been identified in Grafana organization switching functionality. Prerequisites for exploitation: Multiple organizations must exist in the Grafana instance Victim must be on a different organization than the one specified in the URL Fixed in versions...

Viewer-triggered race condition in Grafana Live leads to complete server crash

A race condition in Grafana Live allows authenticated users with Viewer role to trigger a server crash by sending concurrent requests that cause a fatal map access error. This results in complete service unavailability requiring restart of the Grafana server...

Grafana Agent flow mode unquoted service path

On a windows machine, the Grafana Agent Flow mode service prior to version 0.43.1 is vulnerable to a privilege escalation from local user to SYSTEM due to an unquoted service path. It is recommended that you remove the Grafana Agent Flow installation and do a clean install. An update will not...

Users outside an organization can delete a snapshot with its key

It is possible for a user in a different organization from the owner of a snapshot to bypass authorization and delete a snapshot by issuing a DELETE request to /api/snapshots/ using its view key. This functionality is intended to only be available to individuals with the permission to write/edit ...

Improper Path Sanitization in JSON Datasource Plugin

Grafana is an open-source platform for monitoring and observability. The JSON datasource plugin is a Grafana Labs maintained plugin that allows for retrieving and processing JSON data from a remote endpoint including a specific sub-path configured by an administrator. Due to inadequate sanitizati...

Grafana datasource network restrictions bypass

Grafana is an open-source platform for monitoring and observability. In Grafana, Request security is a deny list that allows admins to configure Grafana in a way so that the instance doesn’t call specific hosts. However, the restriction can be bypassed used punycode encoding of the characters in...

Arbitrary Code Execution in Grafana Image Renderer Plugin

Grafana Image Renderer is vulnerable to remote code execution due to an arbitrary file write vulnerability. This is due to the fact that the /render/csv endpoint lacked validation of the filePath parameter that allowed an attacker to save a shared object to an arbitrary location that is then load...

Grafana OnCall Webhook SSRF

Grafana OnCall is an easy-to-use on-call management tool that will help reduce toil in on-call management through simpler workflows and interfaces that are tailored specifically for engineers. Grafana OnCall, from version 1.1.37 before 1.5.2 are vulnerable to a Server Side Request Forgery SSRF...

Google Sheets data source plugin - API key leaks in error messages

The Google Sheets data source plugin for Grafana, versions 0.9.0 to 1.2.2 are vulnerable to an information disclosure vulnerability. The plugin did not properly sanitize error messages, making it potentially expose the Google Sheet API-key that is configured for the data source. This vulnerabilit...

Dashboard Import Overwrites ACL — Editor Privilege Escalation to Dashboard Admin

An Editor can overwrite a dashboard not owned by them to acquire admin on that specific dashboard. The user must have write access to the dashboard to escalate privilege...

Query resampling can cause unbounded memory allocations

A resample query can be used to trigger out-of-memory crashes in Grafana...

Grafana Cross-Site-Scripting (XSS) via scripted dashboards

An open redirect vulnerability has been identified in Grafana 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,...

Authorization Bypass in Datasource Proxy

This vulnerability in Grafana’s datasource proxy API allows authorization checks to be bypassed by adding an extra slash character in the URL path. Users with minimal permissions could gain unauthorized read access to GET endpoints in Alertmanager and Prometheus datasources. The issue primarily...

Authorization vulnerability in /apis allows authenticated users to bypass all dashboard permissions

A security vulnerability in the /apis/dashboard.grafana.app/ endpoints allows authenticated users to bypass dashboard and folder permissions. The vulnerability affects all API versions v0alpha1, v1alpha1, v2alpha1. Impact: Viewers can view all dashboards/folders regardless of permissions Editors...

Stored XSS in Graphite FunctionDescription tooltip

Grafana is an open-source platform for monitoring and observability. Grafana had a stored XSS vulnerability in the Graphite FunctionDescription tooltip. The stored XSS vulnerability was possible due the value of the Function Description was not properly sanitized. An attacker needs to have contro...

Grafana Image Renderer leaking files

Grafana Image Renderer is a Grafana backend plugin that handles rendering of panels & dashboards to PNGs using a headless browser Chromium/Chrome. An internal security review identified an unauthorized file disclosure vulnerability. It is possible for a malicious user to retrieve unauthorized fil...

Information Leakage in grafana-plugin-sdk-go

The grafana plugin SDK bundles build metadata into the binaries it compiles; this metadata includes the repository URI for the plugin being built, as retrieved by running git remote get-url origin . If credentials are included in the repository URI for instance, to allow for fetching of private...

SQL Expressions Read File From Disk

A vulnerability in SQL Expressions allows an authenticated attacker to read arbitrary files from the Grafana server’s filesystem. Only instances with the sqlExpressions feature toggle enabled are vulnerable...

S3 SSE-C Encryption Key Exposed in Plaintext via Config Endpoint

A vulnerability in Grafana Tempo exposes the S3 SSE-C encryption key in plaintext through the /status/config endpoint, potentially allowing unauthorized users to obtain the key used to encrypt trace data stored in S3. Thanks to williamgoodfellow for reporting this vulnerability...