Grafana's insecure DingDing Alert integration exposes sensitive informationGHSA-46m5-8hpj-p5p5
MEDIUMFix: grafana/grafana@04111e9GHSA-46m5-8hpj-p5p5 is a medium-severity (CVSS 4.3) Information Exposure vulnerability in github.com/grafana/grafana. A fix is available for github.com/grafana/grafana — see the affected versions and patch details below.
Exploitation Status
No confirmed exploitation observed yet
- CISA’s own triage has not observed active exploitation or public proof-of-concept code for this CVE as of its last assessment.
Exploitation and automatability from CISA’s SSVC triage for GHSA-46m5-8hpj-p5p5.
EPSS Exploitation Probability
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.
How urgent is this, really
Where this sits among everything scored
Real-World Exposure
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Description
Grafana is an open-source platform for monitoring and observability. The Grafana Alerting DingDing integration was not properly protected and could be exposed to users with Viewer permission. Fixed in versions 10.4.19+security-01, 11.2.10+security-01, 11.3.7+security-01, 11.4.5+security-01, 11.5.5+security-01, 11.6.2+security-01 and 12.0.1+security-01.
Affected Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🐹Go | github.com/grafana/grafana | all versions | 1.9.2-0.20250514160932-04111e9f2afdgo get github.com/grafana/grafana@v1.9.2-0.20250514160932-04111e9f2afd |
Detection & mitigation playbook
Open-source dependencyDetect
Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for github.com/grafana/grafana, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.
Fix
Update github.com/grafana/grafana to 1.9.2-0.20250514160932-04111e9f2afd or later, then make sure no transitive (indirect) dependency still pins the vulnerable range — O3 confirms GHSA-46m5-8hpj-p5p5 is resolved across your whole dependency graph.
Workarounds
Assume what was exposed is already known: rotate any credential, token or key that the affected component could return, restrict the endpoint to callers that genuinely need it, and strip sensitive fields from responses and error output at the boundary rather than relying on the client not to read them.
How to detect GHSA-46m5-8hpj-p5p5
A community-maintained Nuclei template exists for this CVE. You can scan for it directly:
nuclei -id ghsa-46m5-8hpj-p5p5 -u https://target- Template
- Grafana - Exposes DingDing API Keys
- Severity
- medium
- Impact
- Viewers can access DingDing alerting integration URLs containing access tokens through the alertmanager API, potentially enabling unauthorized message delivery and notification manipulation.
- Remediation
- Upgrade to Grafana version 12.0.2 or later that properly restricts access to DingDing integration settings.
Template by ProjectDiscovery nuclei-templates (lucasribolli), MIT licensed. View the full template. Scan only systems you are authorised to test.
Fixing This On Your OS
If you run this on a Linux distribution, patch through your package manager against the distro's own security advisory below — it tracks the exact backported fix for your release, which can ship on a different timeline (and sometimes a different severity) than the upstream project.
The Grafana development team assessed this as a Medium severity information exposure issue. Viewer-role users can now access sensitive webhook URLs, enabling them to hijack or misuse notifications through the DingDing integration. The underlying cause is weak access control policies that do not restrict configuration…
Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options don't meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base or stability.Source: Red Hat security advisory for GHSA-46m5-8hpj-p5p5 (CC BY 4.0)
Frequently Asked Questions
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