CVE-2024-8996

HIGH

Grafana Agent Flow < 0.43.2 - Privilege Escalation via Unquoted Search Path

Title source: llm

Description

Unquoted Search Path or Element vulnerability in Grafana Agent (Flow mode) on Windows allows Privilege Escalation from Local User to SYSTEM This issue affects Agent Flow: before 0.43.2

References (3)

Core 3

Core References

Release Notes

https://github.com/grafana/agent/releases/tag/v0.43.3

Vendor Advisory

https://grafana.com/blog/2024/09/25/grafana-alloy-and-grafana-agent-flow-security-release-high-severity-fix-for-cve-2024-8975-and-cve-2024-8996/

Vendor Advisory

https://grafana.com/security/security-advisories/cve-2024-8996/

Scores

CVSS v3 7.3

EPSS 0.0027

EPSS Percentile 17.7%

Attack Vector LOCAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

Details

CWE

CWE-428

Status published

Products (2)

grafana/agent < 0.43.2

grafana/agent 0 - 0.43.3Go

Published Sep 25, 2024

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026