CVE-2026-11769 Affecting grafana-operator-compat package, versions <5.24.0-r0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.36% (29th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-MINIMOSLATEST-GRAFANAOPERATORCOMPAT-17804563
  • published3 Jul 2026
  • disclosed13 Jun 2026

Introduced: 13 Jun 2026

CVE-2026-11769  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Minimos:latest grafana-operator-compat to version 5.24.0-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream grafana-operator-compat package and not the grafana-operator-compat package as distributed by Minimos. See How to fix? for Minimos:latest relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

Summary

The 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.

Impact

It 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.

Affected versions

All Grafana Operator versions <= 5.23

Solutions and mitigations

All installations should be upgraded as soon as possible.

As a workaround, the following ValidatingAdmissionPolicy prevent the creation or modification of jsonnet based resources:

apiVersion: admissionregistration.k8s.io/v1 kind: ValidatingAdmissionPolicy metadata: name: "prevent-jsonnet-dashboards" spec: failurePolicy: Fail matchConstraints: resourceRules: - apiGroups: ["grafana.integreatly.org"] apiVersions: ["v1beta1"] operations: ["CREATE", "UPDATE"] resources: ["grafanadashboards", "grafanalibrarypanels"] validations: - expression: "!has(object.spec.jsonnetLib)"

apiVersion: admissionregistration.k8s.io/v1 kind: ValidatingAdmissionPolicyBinding metadata: name: "prevent-jsonnet-dashboards-clusterwide" spec: policyName: "prevent-jsonnet-dashboards" validationActions: [Deny]

Acknowledgement

We would like to thank Artem Cherezov for responsibly disclosing the vulnerability.

CVSS Base Scores

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