Red Hat Security Advisory: grafana security update
This advisory addresses multiple security vulnerabilities in Grafana as packaged for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. 8. The issues include denial of service and resource exhaustion vulnerabilities in Golang components used by Grafana: a crafted certificate causing excessive resource consumption (CVE-2025-61729), excessive CPU consumption when building archive indexes (CVE-2025-61728), and memory exhaustion during URL query parameter parsing (CVE-2025-61726). Red Hat has released updated Grafana packages that fix these vulnerabilities. The update is rated as Important by Red Hat Product Security.
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Technical Summary
Red Hat Product Security issued an advisory (RHSA-2026:3838) for Grafana in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 addressing three Golang-related vulnerabilities: CVE-2025-61729 (denial of service via crafted certificate in crypto/x509), CVE-2025-61728 (excessive CPU consumption in archive/zip), and CVE-2025-61726 (memory exhaustion in net/url query parsing). These vulnerabilities can lead to denial of service conditions due to excessive resource consumption. Red Hat has provided updated packages for affected versions of Grafana to remediate these issues. The advisory references detailed CVE pages for further information and provides package updates for multiple architectures and variants of RHEL 8.8.
Potential Impact
The vulnerabilities can cause denial of service through excessive CPU or memory consumption when processing crafted inputs related to certificates, zip archives, or URL query parameters. This may disrupt Grafana service availability on affected Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 systems. There are no known exploits in the wild at the time of the advisory.
Mitigation Recommendations
Red Hat has released updated Grafana packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 that address these vulnerabilities. Users should apply the provided security update as described in the Red Hat advisory RHSA-2026:3838 and the referenced article https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258. Applying this update will remediate the issues. No additional mitigation steps are indicated by the vendor.
Red Hat Security Advisory: grafana security update
Description
This advisory addresses multiple security vulnerabilities in Grafana as packaged for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. 8. The issues include denial of service and resource exhaustion vulnerabilities in Golang components used by Grafana: a crafted certificate causing excessive resource consumption (CVE-2025-61729), excessive CPU consumption when building archive indexes (CVE-2025-61728), and memory exhaustion during URL query parameter parsing (CVE-2025-61726). Red Hat has released updated Grafana packages that fix these vulnerabilities. The update is rated as Important by Red Hat Product Security.
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Machine-generated threat intelligence
Technical Analysis
Red Hat Product Security issued an advisory (RHSA-2026:3838) for Grafana in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 addressing three Golang-related vulnerabilities: CVE-2025-61729 (denial of service via crafted certificate in crypto/x509), CVE-2025-61728 (excessive CPU consumption in archive/zip), and CVE-2025-61726 (memory exhaustion in net/url query parsing). These vulnerabilities can lead to denial of service conditions due to excessive resource consumption. Red Hat has provided updated packages for affected versions of Grafana to remediate these issues. The advisory references detailed CVE pages for further information and provides package updates for multiple architectures and variants of RHEL 8.8.
Potential Impact
The vulnerabilities can cause denial of service through excessive CPU or memory consumption when processing crafted inputs related to certificates, zip archives, or URL query parameters. This may disrupt Grafana service availability on affected Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 systems. There are no known exploits in the wild at the time of the advisory.
Mitigation Recommendations
Red Hat has released updated Grafana packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 that address these vulnerabilities. Users should apply the provided security update as described in the Red Hat advisory RHSA-2026:3838 and the referenced article https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258. Applying this update will remediate the issues. No additional mitigation steps are indicated by the vendor.
Technical Details
- Gcve Source
- db.gcve.eu
- Csaf Category
- csaf_security_advisory
- Csaf Version
- 2.0
- Publisher
- Red Hat Product Security
- Advisory Id
- RHSA-2026:3838
- Cve Count
- 3
- Additional Cves
- ["CVE-2025-61728","CVE-2025-61729"]
- Cvss Version
- null
Threat ID: 6a160968e29bf47b5062e42c
Added to database: 5/26/2026, 8:58:16 PM
Last enriched: 5/26/2026, 9:40:03 PM
Last updated: 5/27/2026, 4:54:15 AM
Views: 2
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