Grafana Tempo vulnerabilities
3 vulnerabilities
Known vulnerabilities in Grafana Tempo, newest first, with CVSS severity, EPSS, KEV listings, ransomware use and the affected versions.
CVE-2026-21728chainguardcommercial-grafana-11.6+33
EPSS score0.64%
Tempo queries with large limits can cause large memory allocations which can impact the availability of the service, depending on its deployment strategy.
Mitigation can be done by setting max_result_limit in the search config, e.g. to 262144 (2^18). Alternatively, automatically restart the service.CVE-2026-27878chainguardcommercial-grafana-11.6+23EPSS score0.41%
A TraceQL query in Grafana Tempo with a large exemplars hint value can cause the Tempo instance to allocate an excessive amount of memory, resulting in an out-of-memory crash. This could allow an authenticated user to trigger a denial of service against the Tempo service.CVE-2026-28377chainguardcommercial-grafana-11.6+33EPSS score0.16%
A vulnerability in Grafana Tempo exposes the S3 SSE-C encryption key in plaintext through the /status/config endpoint, potentially allowing unauthorized users to obtain the key used to encrypt trace data stored in S3.
Thanks to william_goodfellow for reporting this vulnerability.