What is CVE-2026-8609?

CVE-2026-8609 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Grafana Oss, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2026-07-10.

How severe is CVE-2026-8609?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in Grafana Oss

CVE-2026-8609

An unauthenticated attacker can repeatedly call Grafana's OAuth login route with unique values, causing unbounded memory growth that can eventually exhaust memory and crash the Grafana instance (denial of service).

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L.

Affected products

Grafana Oss — versions 11.6.0, 12.2.0, 12.3.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

security@grafana.com (vendor-advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2026-8609?: CVE-2026-8609 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Grafana Oss, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2026-07-10.
How severe is CVE-2026-8609?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.