CVE-2021-43798
grafana: path traversal vulnerability
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.1
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Published · December 7, 2021
Updated · November 21, 2025
Description
A directory path traversal vulnerability was found in Grafana. This flaw allows an attacker to obtain read access to the local files due to a lack of path normalization in the /public/plugins// URL.
Statement
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 and 9 are not affected by this vulnerability because these products utilize unaffected versions of Grafana. The vulnerable function was introduced upstream (between v8.0.0-beta1 through v8.3.2), which is not present in Red Hat source code.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.1 · 7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE-22 · Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')