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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The jsonnet expression is evaluated in the context of the operator manager pod.\n\n\n\n### Impact\n\n\n\nIt 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.\n\n\n\n### Affected versions\n\n\n\nAll Grafana Operator versions <= 5.23\n\n\n\n### Solutions and mitigations\n\n\n\nAll installations should be upgraded as soon as possible.\n\n\n\nAs a workaround, the following ValidatingAdmissionPolicy prevent the creation or modification of jsonnet based resources:\n\n\n\napiVersion: admissionregistration.k8s.io/v1\n\n\n\nkind: ValidatingAdmissionPolicy\n\n\n\nmetadata:\n\n name: \"prevent-jsonnet-dashboards\"\n\n\nspec:\n\n failurePolicy: Fail\n matchConstraints:\n resourceRules:\n - apiGroups: [\"grafana.integreatly.org\"]\n apiVersions: [\"v1beta1\"]\n operations: [\"CREATE\", \"UPDATE\"]\n resources: [\"grafanadashboards\", \"grafanalibrarypanels\"]\n validations:\n - expression: \"!has(object.spec.jsonnetLib)\"\n\n\n---\n\n\n\napiVersion: admissionregistration.k8s.io/v1\n\n\n\nkind: ValidatingAdmissionPolicyBinding\n\n\n\nmetadata:\n\n name: \"prevent-jsonnet-dashboards-clusterwide\"\n\n\nspec:\n\n policyName: \"prevent-jsonnet-dashboards\"\n validationActions: [Deny]\n\n\n### Acknowledgement\n\n\n\nWe would like to thank Artem Cherezov for responsibly disclosing the vulnerability."}],"metrics":[{"cvssV4_0":{"Automatable":"NOT_DEFINED","Recovery":"NOT_DEFINED","Safety":"NOT_DEFINED","attackComplexity":"LOW","attackRequirements":"NONE","attackVector":"NETWORK","baseScore":6.4,"baseSeverity":"MEDIUM","exploitMaturity":"NOT_DEFINED","privilegesRequired":"LOW","providerUrgency":"NOT_DEFINED","subAvailabilityImpact":"NONE","subConfidentialityImpact":"HIGH","subIntegrityImpact":"HIGH","userInteraction":"NONE","valueDensity":"NOT_DEFINED","vectorString":"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","version":"4.0","vulnAvailabilityImpact":"NONE","vulnConfidentialityImpact":"NONE","vulnIntegrityImpact":"NONE","vulnerabilityResponseEffort":"NOT_DEFINED"},"format":"CVSS","scenarios":[{"lang":"en","value":"GENERAL"}]}],"providerMetadata":{"dateUpdated":"2026-06-13T04:17:41.099Z","orgId":"57da9224-a3e2-4646-9d0e-c4dc2e05e7da","shortName":"GRAFANA"},"references":[{"tags":["vendor-advisory"],"url":"https://grafana.com/security/security-advisories/cve-2026-11769"}],"source":{"discovery":"INTERNAL"},"title":"Operator - Namespaced User Path Traversal","x_generator":{"engine":"Vulnogram 1.0.2"}}},"cveMetadata":{"assignerOrgId":"57da9224-a3e2-4646-9d0e-c4dc2e05e7da","assignerShortName":"GRAFANA","cveId":"CVE-2026-11769","datePublished":"2026-06-13T04:17:41.099Z","dateReserved":"2026-06-09T10:52:06.229Z","dateUpdated":"2026-06-13T04:17:41.099Z","state":"PUBLISHED"},"dataType":"CVE_RECORD","dataVersion":"5.2"},"nvd":{"publishedDate":"2026-06-13 06:16:14","lastModifiedDate":"2026-06-13 06:16:14","problem_types":[],"metrics":{"cvssMetricV40":[{"source":"security@grafana.com","type":"Secondary","cvssData":{"version":"4.0","vectorString":"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/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X","baseScore":6.4,"baseSeverity":"MEDIUM","attackVector":"NETWORK","attackComplexity":"LOW","attackRequirements":"NONE","privilegesRequired":"LOW","userInteraction":"NONE","vulnConfidentialityImpact":"NONE","vulnIntegrityImpact":"NONE","vulnAvailabilityImpact":"NONE","subConfidentialityImpact":"HIGH","subIntegrityImpact":"HIGH","subAvailabilityImpact":"NONE","exploitMaturity":"NOT_DEFINED","confidentialityRequirement":"NOT_DEFINED","integrityRequirement":"NOT_DEFINED","availabilityRequirement":"NOT_DEFINED","modifiedAttackVector":"NOT_DEFINED","modifiedAttackComplexity":"NOT_DEFINED","modifiedAttackRequirements":"NOT_DEFINED","modifiedPrivilegesRequired":"NOT_DEFINED","modifiedUserInteraction":"NOT_DEFINED","modifiedVulnConfidentialityImpact":"NOT_DEFINED","modifiedVulnIntegrityImpact":"NOT_DEFINED","modifiedVulnAvailabilityImpact":"NOT_DEFINED","modifiedSubConfidentialityImpact":"NOT_DEFINED","modifiedSubIntegrityImpact":"NOT_DEFINED","modifiedSubAvailabilityImpact":"NOT_DEFINED","Safety":"NOT_DEFINED","Automatable":"NOT_DEFINED","Recovery":"NOT_DEFINED","valueDensity":"NOT_DEFINED","vulnerabilityResponseEffort":"NOT_DEFINED","providerUrgency":"NOT_DEFINED"}}]},"configurations":[]},"legacy_mitre":{"record":{"CveYear":"2026","CveId":"11769","Ordinal":"1","Title":"Operator - Namespaced User Path Traversal","CVE":"CVE-2026-11769","Year":"2026"},"notes":[{"CveYear":"2026","CveId":"11769","Ordinal":"1","NoteData":"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.\n\n\n\n### Summary\n\n\n\nThe 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.\n\n\n\n### Impact\n\n\n\nIt 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.\n\n\n\n### Affected versions\n\n\n\nAll Grafana Operator versions <= 5.23\n\n\n\n### Solutions and mitigations\n\n\n\nAll installations should be upgraded as soon as possible.\n\n\n\nAs a workaround, the following ValidatingAdmissionPolicy prevent the creation or modification of jsonnet based resources:\n\n\n\napiVersion: admissionregistration.k8s.io/v1\n\n\n\nkind: ValidatingAdmissionPolicy\n\n\n\nmetadata:\n\n name: \"prevent-jsonnet-dashboards\"\n\n\nspec:\n\n failurePolicy: Fail\n matchConstraints:\n resourceRules:\n - apiGroups: [\"grafana.integreatly.org\"]\n apiVersions: [\"v1beta1\"]\n operations: [\"CREATE\", \"UPDATE\"]\n resources: [\"grafanadashboards\", \"grafanalibrarypanels\"]\n validations:\n - expression: \"!has(object.spec.jsonnetLib)\"\n\n\n---\n\n\n\napiVersion: admissionregistration.k8s.io/v1\n\n\n\nkind: ValidatingAdmissionPolicyBinding\n\n\n\nmetadata:\n\n name: \"prevent-jsonnet-dashboards-clusterwide\"\n\n\nspec:\n\n policyName: \"prevent-jsonnet-dashboards\"\n validationActions: [Deny]\n\n\n### Acknowledgement\n\n\n\nWe would like to thank Artem Cherezov for responsibly disclosing the vulnerability.","Type":"Description","Title":"Operator - Namespaced User Path Traversal"}]}}}