We have released version 5.24.0 of the Grafana Operator. This patch includes a CRITICAL 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.

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Description We have released version 5.24.0 of the Grafana Operator. This patch includes a CRITICAL 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.
Title Operator - Namespaced User Path Traversal
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Metrics cvssV4_0

{'score': 6.4, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:N'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GRAFANA

Published:

Updated: 2026-06-13T04:17:41.099Z

Reserved: 2026-06-09T10:52:06.229Z

Link: CVE-2026-11769

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-06-13T06:16:14.380

Modified: 2026-06-13T06:16:14.380

Link: CVE-2026-11769

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Updated: 2026-06-13T12:28:56Z

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