Grafana OSS 11.6.0 path traversal

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A vulnerability marked as critical has been reported in Grafana OSS 11.6.0. This affects an unknown function. The manipulation leads to path traversal. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2026-10601. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists.

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A vulnerability was found in Grafana OSS 11.6.0 and classified as critical. This issue affects an unknown code. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a path traversal vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-22. The product uses external input to construct a pathname that is intended to identify a file or directory that is located underneath a restricted parent directory, but the product does not properly neutralize special elements within the pathname that can cause the pathname to resolve to a location that is outside of the restricted directory. Impacted is integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

A user with Viewer permissions can use specially crafted requests to the Tempo and Loki data source plugins to reach unintended backend endpoints. Depending on the backend configuration this can expose data source credentials, leak internal responses, or trigger administrative actions on the configured backend.

The weakness was disclosed by Homb. The advisory is shared at grafana.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2026-10601 since 06/02/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 07/12/2026). MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1006 for this issue.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 322132 (Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-10601), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (322132). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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• Grafana

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• OSS

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• 11.6.0

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• open-source

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