{"id":"CVE-2026-11769","summary":"Operator - Namespaced User Path Traversal","details":"We have released version 5.24.0 of the Grafana Operator. This patch includes a MEDIUM severity security fix for a path traversal/privilege escalation vulnerability in the Grafana Operator.\n\n\n### Summary\n\nThe Grafana Operator supports loading dashboards & library panels using the jsonnet data templating language. The jsonnet expression is evaluated in the context of the operator manager pod.\n\n\n### Impact\n\nIt is possible for a malicious user who can create Dashboard or LibraryPanel resources for a Grafana instance to obtain the Kubernetes service account token of the Grafana Operator manager.\n\n### Affected versions\n\nAll Grafana Operator versions \u003c= 5.23\n\n### Solutions and mitigations\n\nAll installations should be upgraded as soon as possible.\n\nAs a workaround, the following ValidatingAdmissionPolicy prevent the creation or modification of jsonnet based resources:\n\napiVersion: admissionregistration.k8s.io/v1\nkind: ValidatingAdmissionPolicy\nmetadata:\n  name: \"prevent-jsonnet-dashboards\"\nspec:\n  failurePolicy: Fail\n  matchConstraints:\n    resourceRules:\n      - apiGroups: [\"grafana.integreatly.org\"]\n        apiVersions: [\"v1beta1\"]\n        operations: [\"CREATE\", \"UPDATE\"]\n        resources: [\"grafanadashboards\", \"grafanalibrarypanels\"]\n  validations:\n    - expression: \"!has(object.spec.jsonnetLib)\"\n---\napiVersion: admissionregistration.k8s.io/v1\nkind: ValidatingAdmissionPolicyBinding\nmetadata:\n  name: \"prevent-jsonnet-dashboards-clusterwide\"\nspec:\n  policyName: \"prevent-jsonnet-dashboards\"\n  validationActions: [Deny]\n\n\n\n### Acknowledgement\n\nWe would like to thank Artem Cherezov for responsibly disclosing the vulnerability.","aliases":["GHSA-fcw4-wwqm-m8cf","GO-2026-5355"],"modified":"2026-07-12T03:54:48.268998117Z","published":"2026-06-13T04:17:41.099Z","database_specific":{"osv_generated_from":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/11xxx/CVE-2026-11769.json","unresolved_ranges":[{"source":"AFFECTED_FIELD","extracted_events":[{"last_affected":"5.23.0"}]}],"cna_assigner":"GRAFANA"},"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/11xxx/CVE-2026-11769.json"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://grafana.com/security/security-advisories/cve-2026-11769"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-11769"}],"affected":[{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://github.com/grafana/grafana-operator","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"065a718a1fe83728d08054c299de7f8577e88f79"}],"database_specific":{"source":"CPE_RANGE","cpe":"cpe:2.3:a:grafana:grafana_operator:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","extracted_events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"5.24.0"}]}}],"versions":["v5.23.0","v5.22.2","v5.22.1","v5.22.0","v5.21.4","v5.21.3","v5.21.2","v5.21.1","v5.21.0","v5.20.0","v5.19.4","v5.19.3","v5.19.2","v5.19.1","v5.19.0","v5.18.0","v5.17.1","v5.17.0","v5.16.0","v5.15.1","v5.15.0","v5.14.0","v5.13.0","v5.12.0","v5.11.0","v5.10.0","v5.9.2","v5.9.1","v5.9.0","v5.8.1","v5.8.0","v5.7.0","v5.6.3","v5.6.2","v5.6.1","v5.6.0","v5.5.2","v5.5.1","v5.5.0","v5.4.2","v5.4.1","v5.4.0","v5.3.0","v5.2.0","v5.1.0","v5.0.2","v5.0.1","v5.0.0","v5.0.0-rc3","v5.0.0-rc2","v5.0.0-rc1","v4.10.0","v5.0.0-rc0","v4.9.0","v4.8.0","v4.7.1","v4.7.0","4.7.0","v4.6.0","v4.5.1","v4.5.0","v4.4.1","v4.4.0","v4.3.0","v4.2.0","v4.1.1","v4.1.0","v4.0.2","v4.0.1","v3.10.0","v3.9.0","v3.8.1","v3.8.0","v3.7.0","v3.6.0","v3.5.0","v3.4.0","v3.3.0","v3.2.0","v3.1.0","v3.0.2","v3.0.1","v3.0.0","v2.0.0","v1.3.1","v1.4.0","v1.3.0","v1.2.0","v1.1.1","v1.1.0","v1.0.0","0.0.2","0.0.1"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-11769.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V4","score":"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:N"}]}