CVE-2021-36156

MEDIUM

Grafana Loki <2.2.1 - Path Traversal

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

An issue was discovered in Grafana Loki through 2.2.1. The header value X-Scope-OrgID is used to construct file paths for rules files, and if crafted to conduct directory traversal such as ae ../../sensitive/path/in/deployment pathname, then Loki will attempt to parse a rules file at that location and include some of the contents in the error message.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/grafana/loki/pull/4020#issue-694377133
Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/grafana/loki/releases/tag/v2.3.0

Scores

CVSS v3 5.3
EPSS 0.0149
EPSS Percentile 70.9%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-22
Status published
Products (2)
grafana/loki < 2.2.1
grafana/loki 0 - 2.3.0Go
Published Aug 03, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026