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TI-2021-19619 Aliases CVE-2021-43813

Directory Traversal in Grafana

Priority MEDIUM 53CWE-22Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
Low
Impact type
Information disclosure
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
Low · None · None
Fix status
Partial Red Hat: 3 fixed, 7 without a fix

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA and Red Hat. Impact type from CWE-22 and the CVSS impact.

Summary

Grafana is an open-source platform for monitoring and observability. Grafana prior to versions 8.3.2 and 7.5.12 contains a directory traversal vulnerability for fully lowercase or fully uppercase .md files. The vulnerability is limited in scope, and only allows access to files with the extension .md to authenticated users only. Grafana Cloud instances have not been affected by the vulnerability. Users should upgrade to patched versions 8.3.2 or 7.5.12. For users who cannot upgrade, running a reverse proxy in front of Grafana that normalizes the PATH of the request will mitigate the vulnerability. The proxy will have to also be able to handle url encoded paths. Alternatively, for fully lowercase or fully uppercase .md files, users can block /api/plugins/.*/markdown/.* without losing any functionality beyond inlined plugin help text.

Why it matters now

EPSS 0.56588 99th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Partial grafana (grafana): 7.5.12, 8.3.2Red Hat: 3 advisoriesRed Hat: 3 fixed, 7 without a fix

SSVC decision points

Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
Grafanagrafana5.0.0 to before 7.5.12; 8.0.0 to before 8.3.27.5.12, 8.3.2Patch availableCNA
  • grafana VendorGrafana Affected 5.0.0 to before 7.5.12; 8.0.0 to before 8.3.2 Fixed in 7.5.12, 8.3.2 Patch available CNA

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:grafana:grafana:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*5.0.0 to before 7.5.12; 8.0.0 to before 8.3.2VulnerableGrafana
  • cpe:2.3:a:grafana:grafana:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 5.0.0 to before 7.5.12; 8.0.0 to before 8.3.2 Vulnerable ·Grafana

Remediation

  • Fix · CNA grafana (grafana) Fixed in 7.5.12, 8.3.2

Red Hat 3 advisories

  • RHSA-2022:6024 Released 2022-08-09 · Red Hat rating Moderate
    New container image for Red Hat Ceph Storage 5.2 Security update
    • Red Hat Ceph Storage 5.2 Tools rhceph/rhceph-5-dashboard-rhel8
  • RHSA-2022:1781 Released 2022-05-10 · Red Hat rating Low
    grafana security, bug fix, and enhancement update
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) grafana-7.5.11-2.el8
  • RHSA-2022:0056 Released 2022-03-10 · Red Hat rating Moderate
    OpenShift Container Platform 4.10.3 security update
    • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.10 openshift4/cloud-network-config-controller-rhel8, openshift4/egress-router-cni-rhel8, openshift4/network-tools-rhel8 +47

Vendor assessments

Red Hat

Red Hat rating: Low. Red Hat's page for this CVE →

ProductStatusPlan or fix
OpenShift Service Mesh 2.0AffectedNo fix yet
OpenShift Service Mesh 2.1AffectedNo fix yet
Red Hat Ceph Storage 2AffectedNo fix planned: Out of support scope
Red Hat Ceph Storage 3AffectedNo fix planned: Out of support scope
Red Hat Ceph Storage 4AffectedNo fix yet: Fix deferred
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11AffectedNo fix yet: Fix deferred
Red Hat Storage 3AffectedNo fix yet: Fix deferred
Red Hat Ceph Storage 5.2 ToolsFixed RHSA-2022:6024
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8)Fixed RHSA-2022:1781
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.10Fixed RHSA-2022:0056
Not affected: 4 products
  • Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2
  • Red Hat Ceph Storage 5.2 Tools
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.10

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2021-43813

References

Patch 4

Advisory 3

Other 1

  • TI-2021-16611 Snapshot authentication bypass in grafana KEVCVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
  • TI-2021-19604 Grafana path traversal KEVCVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
  • TI-2024-08600 Grafana SQL Expressions allow for remote code execution CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.4
  • TI-2023-02931 Authentication bypass by spoofing in Grafana CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
  • TI-2020-10491 The avatar feature in Grafana 3.0.1 through 7.0.1 has an SSRF Incorrect Access Control… CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.2
  • TI-2025-03662 Open redirect in Grafana CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.6
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