Operator – Namespaced User Path Traversal_CVE-2026-11769

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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.\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.",
    "published": "2026-06-13T04:17:41.099Z",
    "modified": "2026-06-13T04:17:41.099Z",
    "type": "cve",
    "title": "Operator - Namespaced User Path Traversal",
    "source": "GRAFANA",
    "references": "https://grafana.com/security/security-advisories/cve-2026-11769",
    "id": "CVE-2026-11769",
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