Grafana Security Updates – 17 May 2026

Grafana has released security updates to fix several vulnerabilities across multiple Grafana products.

The addressed vulnerabilities could allow the attacker to perform denial-of-service attacks, obtain sensitive information, gain elevated privileges, manipulate files, or bypass security restrictions on the affected systems.

Sample of the addressed vulnerabilities:

1. Grafana Auth Proxy IPv6 Whitelist Bypass Vulnerability (CVE-2026-33376):

  • CVSS: 7.4
  • Attack Vector: Network
  • Attack Complexity: High
  • Privileges Required: None
  • User Interaction: None
  • Consequences: Security Bypass

2. Dashboard Import Overwrites ACL — Editor Privilege Escalation to Dashboard Admin Vulnerability (CVE-2026-33377):

  • CVSS: 7.1
  • Attack Vector: Network
  • Attack Complexity: Low
  • Privileges Required: Low
  • User Interaction: None
  • Consequences: Gain Privileges
Vulnerabilities
  • CVE-2026-33376
  • CVE-2026-28380
  • CVE-2026-33377
  • CVE-2026-33378
  • CVE-2026-28376
  • CVE-2026-28383
  • CVE-2026-28374
  • CVE-2026-33380
  • CVE-2026-33381
  • CVE-2026-28379
Mitigations

The enterprise should deploy this patch as soon as the testing phase is completed.

Grafana Security Advisory

References