CVE-2026-42127
Vulnerability Summary
Timeline
Description
The public dashboard query endpoint does not limit request body size before processing, allowing unauthenticated attackers to trigger excessive memory allocation by sending arbitrarily large JSON payloads. This can lead to denial of service through memory exhaustion. No valid dashboard access token or authentication is required to exploit this vulnerability.
CVSS Metrics
- v3.1•HIGH•Score: 7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Trends
Current EPSS score: 0.43%• Percentile: 37%
Techniques & Countermeasures
- CWE-400•Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource.
- CWE-770•Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
The product allocates a reusable resource or group of resources on behalf of an actor without imposing any intended restrictions on the size or number of resources that can be allocated.
Affected Systems
- chainguard•grafana-11.6
< 11.6.16-r2
- chainguard•grafana-12.0
all
- chainguard•grafana-12.1
all
- chainguard•grafana-12.2
< 12.2.10-r10
- chainguard•grafana-12.3
< 12.3.7-r0
- chainguard•grafana-12.4
< 12.4.4-r0
- chainguard•grafana-fips-12.0
all
- chainguard•grafana-fips-12.1
all
- chainguard•grafana-fips-12.2
< 12.2.10-r4
- chainguard•grafana-fips-12.3
< 12.3.7-r0
- chainguard•grafana-fips-12.4
< 12.4.4-r0
- wolfi•grafana-12.3
< 12.3.7-r0
- wolfi•grafana-12.4
< 12.4.4-r0
- grafana•grafana
≤ 11.6.14 | ≥ 12.2.0, ≤ 12.2.8 | ≥ 12.3.0, ≤ 12.3.6 | ≥ 12.4.0, ≤ 12.4.3 | ≥ 13.0.0, ≤ 13.0.1
- grafana•grafana enterprise
≤ 11.6.14 | ≤ 12.2.8 | ≤ 12.3.6 | ≤ 12.4.3 | ≤ 13.0.1 | ≥ 11.6.0, ≤ 11.6.14 | ≥ 12.2.0, ≤ 12.2.8 | ≥ 12.3.0, ≤ 12.3.6 | ≥ 12.4.0, ≤ 12.4.3 | ≥ 13.0.0, ≤ 13.0.1
- grafana•grafana oss
≥ 11.6.0, ≤ 11.6.14 | ≥ 12.2.0, ≤ 12.2.8 | ≥ 12.3.0, ≤ 12.3.6 | ≥ 12.4.0, ≤ 12.4.3 | ≥ 13.0.0, ≤ 13.0.1
- redhat•grafana
< 0:10.2.6-23.el9_8.1
- redhat•grafana-debuginfo
< 0:10.2.6-23.el9_8.1
- redhat•grafana-debugsource
< 0:10.2.6-23.el9_8.1
- redhat•grafana-selinux
< 0:10.2.6-23.el9_8.1
References (9)
- https://grafana.com/security/security-advisories/cve-2026-42127
- https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/42xxx/CVE-2026-42127.json
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-42127
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:54184
- https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2491449
- https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2026/rhsa-2026_54184.json
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-42127
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-42127