⚠ Actively exploited
Added to CISA KEV on 2025-10-09. Federal agencies required to patch by 2025-10-30. Required action: Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable..
CVE-2021-43798 — Path Traversal in Grafana Grafana
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
94.4%
top 0.01%
CISA KEV
KEV
Added 2025-10-09
Due 2025-10-30
Exploit
PoC available
Public exploit / PoC exists
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedDec 7
KEV addedOct 9
KEV dueOct 30
CISA Required Action: Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
Description
Grafana is an open-source platform for monitoring and observability. Grafana versions 8.0.0-beta1 through 8.3.0 (except for patched versions) iss vulnerable to directory traversal, allowing access to local files. The vulnerable URL path is: `/public/plugins//`, where is the plugin ID for any installed plugin. At no time has Grafana Cloud been vulnerable. Users are advised to upgrade to patched versions 8.0.7, 8.1.8, 8.2.7, or 8.3.1. The GitHub Security Advisory contains more information about vu…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6
Affected Packages3 packages
Patches
🔴Vulnerability Details
6💥Exploits & PoCs
2Nuclei▶
Grafana v8.x - Arbitrary File Read