⚠ 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-2021-43798Path Traversal in Grafana Grafana

CWE-22Path Traversal14 documents11 sources
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
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

Gogithub.com/grafana_grafana8.3.08.3.1+3
NVDgrafana/grafana8.0.18.0.7+4
CVEListV5grafana/grafana4 versions+3

Patches

🔴Vulnerability Details

6
GHSA
Grafana directory traversal for .cvs files2024-05-14
OSV
Grafana path traversal2024-02-01
GHSA
Grafana path traversal2024-02-01
CVEList
Grafana path traversal2021-12-07
OSV
CVE-2021-43798: Grafana is an open-source platform for monitoring and observability2021-12-07

💥Exploits & PoCs

2
Exploit-DB
Grafana 8.3.0 - Directory Traversal and Arbitrary File Read2021-12-09
Nuclei
Grafana v8.x - Arbitrary File Read

🔍Detection Rules

1
Suricata
ET EXPLOIT Grafana 8.x Path Traversal (CVE-2021-43798)2021-12-07

📋Vendor Advisories

2
CISA
Grafana Path Traversal Vulnerability2025-10-09
Red Hat
grafana: path traversal vulnerability2021-12-07

📄Research Papers

2
CTF
Ambassador / README
CTF
Ambassador / README
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