7.5

CVE-2026-28377: grafana tempo Inadequate Encryption Strength

CVSS: 7.5v3.1HighAnalyzed
AliasesCGA-4hcw-3xrj-4m2jCGA-7gr3-mjqj-922pCGA-9ph2-2gvc-7ww5
Published 26-03-2026Last modified 27-08-2026

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2026-28377 is a high (CVSS 7.5) Inadequate Encryption Strength vulnerability in grafana tempo. EPSS estimates a 0.16% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 5.2% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
30/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
7.5/10
010
High · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.16%
0%100%
Low · +0.01 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 1 · Related 2

Timeline

  1. 26-03-2026
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 27-08-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

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.

CVSS metrics

5 scores · 5 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.16%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

5%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

+0.01 pp

From 0.15% on 20-09-2026

20-09-202620-10-2026
EPSS score
0.16%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Chainguard28 products
  • commercial-grafana-11.6All versions (No fix recorded)
  • commercial-grafana-12.1All versions (No fix recorded)
  • commercial-grafana-12.2All versions (No fix recorded)
  • commercial-grafana-12.3All versions (No fix recorded)
  • commercial-grafana-12.4All versions (No fix recorded)
Wolfi3 products
  • grafana-12.3All versions (No fix recorded)
  • grafana-12.4All versions (No fix recorded)
  • grafana-13.0All versions (No fix recorded)
Github.com/grafana1 product
  • tempo< 2.10.3 | All versions (No fix recorded)
Grafana1 product
Opensuse1 product
  • tempo-cli&distro=openSUSE Tumbleweed< 2.10.3-1.1

5 vendors · 34 products

References

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