Grafana public dashboards disclose all direct mode datasources
When using public dashboards and direct data-sources, all direct data-sources' passwords are exposed despite not being used in dashboards. No passwords of proxied data-sources are exposed. We encourage all direct data-sources to be converted to proxied data-sources as far as possible to improve your deployments' security.
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
62 explicit affected versions
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
When using public dashboards and direct data-sources, all direct data-sources' passwords are exposed despite not being used in dashboards. No passwords of proxied data-sources are exposed. We encourage all direct data-sources to be converted to proxied data-sources as far as possible to improve your deployments' security.
Grafana public dashboards disclose all direct mode datasources in github.com/grafana/grafana. NOTE: The source advisory for this report contains additional versions that could not be automatically mapped to standard Go module versions. (If this is causing false-positive reports from vulnerability scanners, please suggest an edit to the report.) The additional affected modules and versions are: github.com/grafana/grafana from v1.9.2-0.20221116104934-4ee83a5f2bf4 before v1.9.2-0.20260325055210-3522153e07b4.
When using public dashboards and direct data-sources, all direct data-sources' passwords are exposed despite not being used in dashboards. No passwords of proxied data-sources are exposed. We encourage all direct data-sources to be converted to proxied data-sources as far as possible to improve your deployments' security.
When using public dashboards and direct data-sources, all direct data-sources' passwords are exposed despite not being used in dashboards. No passwords of proxied data-sources are exposed. We encourage all direct data-sources to be converted to proxied data-sources as far as possible to improve your deployments' security.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:10223
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:10226
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:11416
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:11417
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:19134
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:19352
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-27877
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2452293
- https://grafana.com/security/security-advisories/cve-2026-27877
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-27877
- https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-27877.json
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3q27-7qjq-p9c5
- https://github.com/grafana/grafana
- https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/27xxx/CVE-2026-27877.json