Medium Access control

CVE-2026-21724 — Missing Protected-field Authorization in Provisioning Contact Points API

A vulnerability has been discovered in Grafana OSS where an authorization bypass in the provisioning contact points API allows users with Editor role to modify protected webhook URLs without the required alert.notifications.receivers.protected:write permission.

Published Mar 26, 2026 · Updated Oct 13, 2026 · Sources: NIST National Vulnerability Database, CVE Program (cve.org) e CISA ADP · CNA: GRAFANA

Low

Who exploits it and how urgent it is

A 0–100 score combining confirmed exploitation, ransomware and APT use, public exploits, EPSS and severity.

No exploitation signal in the sources consulted so far.

How the score was calculated

EPSS 0.3% (30-day exploitation probability)+3
Technical severity (medium)+3

The score orders the patch queue; it does not replace your asset context (internet exposure, criticality, compensating controls).

Triage

Is it exploited, how likely is exploitation, what does it touch, and how severe do the sources call it.

Exploitation

Not confirmed

Not in CISA KEV — an absence of record, not proof it is unexploited.

EPSS FIRST

0.26%

ahead of 17% of scored CVEs · Oct 14, 2026

Affects

Grafana

Grafana and 1 more

CVSS base

4.3

Medium · 3 source(s)

Prioritization reference: 5.4 provisional

CISA SSVC assessment CISA

Three decision points CISA publishes for the CVEs it assesses (SSVC 2.0.3). A stakeholder decision, not a severity score.

Exploitation

None

none · proof-of-concept · active

Automatable

can an attacker script the kill-chain steps

Technical impact

Partial

partial · total control of the vulnerable component

Remediation

Fixes and mitigations documented by the sources — linked to the original advisory.

No fix documented by the sources we poll. That does not mean none exists: check the vendor advisory.

First 24 hours

Ordered from the record’s own fields — exposure first, because you cannot patch what you have not found. A rule-generated starting point.

Identify exposed assets running the affected vendor/product/version combinations (Grafana Grafana, Grafana Grafana OSS).
No fix documented in the sources: reduce exposure and monitor the vendor advisory.
Search available logs for exploit probes matching the vulnerability class (access control), errors and authentication anomalies.

Affected scope

Vendor, product and versions as the sources word them.

Vendor	Product	Versions	Status	Source
Grafana	Grafana	≥ 11.6.9 and < 11.6.14≥ 12.1.5 and < 12.1.10≥ 12.2.2 and < 12.2.8≥ 12.3.1 and < 12.3.6	Vulnerable	NIST National Vulnerability Database
Grafana	Grafana OSS	≥ 12.3.1 and < 12.3.6≥ 12.2.2 and < 12.2.8≥ 12.1.5 and < 12.1.10≥ 11.6.9 and < 11.6.14	Vulnerable	CVE Program (cve.org) e CISA ADP

Attack characteristics

The CVSS vector, decoded. It describes the attack, not your exposure to it.

Attack vector

Network

Attack complexity

Low

Privileges required

Low

User interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

Low

Availability

None

Every base score collected

Sources score independently and may disagree; each row says who scored it and under which version.

Score	Version	Severity	Expl.	Impact	Scored by
5.4	CVSS 3.1	Medium	2.8	2.5	security@grafana.com via NIST National Vulnerability Database
5.4	CVSS 3.1	Medium	—	—	GRAFANA via CVE Program (cve.org) e CISA ADP
4.3	CVSS 3.1	Medium	2.8	1.4	nvd@nist.gov via NIST National Vulnerability Database

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N (score shown at the top: nvd@nist.gov)

Scoring entities (NIST, CNA, ADP) score independently; each score is shown with its origin. For prioritization we use 5.4 (security@grafana.com via NIST National Vulnerability Database) as a conservative provisional reference — not a definitive official score.

Weakness MITRE

Weakness class according to MITRE’s CWE catalog.

CWE-285 · Improper Authorization

Other CVEs with this weakness →

EPSS over time FIRST

Oct 13, 2026 → Oct 14, 2026 · 2 reading(s) · max 0.26%

Detection

Read off the CVSS vector and the weakness class. Starting points, not tested rules.

Prioritize edge telemetry for the network-reachable component (proxy, WAF, IDS/IPS).
Audit administrative actions and access to resources outside each user’s normal pattern.

web/proxy/WAF logsnetwork IDS/IPSauthentication logsapplication logs

Timeline

What happened to this CVE, newest first.

2026
Affected products added · grafana/grafana oss
Oct 13, 2026 · CVE Program (cve.org) e CISA ADP
SSVC assessment updated
Oct 13, 2026 · CVE Program (cve.org) e CISA ADP
Record published
Oct 13, 2026
CVSS changed · 4.3
Oct 13, 2026 · NIST National Vulnerability Database
Source status changed · → Analyzed
Oct 13, 2026 · NIST National Vulnerability Database
Record created in this database
Oct 13, 2026 · NIST National Vulnerability Database
CVE published
Mar 26, 2026 · GRAFANA

Source activity

Repeated readings are counted rather than listed.

1× Official description updated · Oct 13, 2026 – Oct 13, 2026

References

1 on the record

grafana.com/security/security-advisories/cve-2026-21724
Vendor Advisory, vendor-advisory, NIST National Vulnerability Database

Elsewhere on this site

Grafana
every CVE for this vendor

Access control
same class

CWE-285
other pages naming this weakness

Related CVEs (same products)

High CVE-2026-9703 Viewer role can create, modify and delete Loki alerting rules 6h
Medium CVE-2026-93294 Azure Monitor data source resource proxy allows calls to arbitrary Azure Resource Manager APIs 2d
Medium CVE-2026-95502 A Git server that Grafana's Git Sync (provisioning) is configured to use can exhaust Grafana's... 2d
Medium CVE-2026-33374 The Prometheus rule conversion API endpoints in Grafana do not limit request body size, allowing... 2d
Medium CVE-2026-15577 A user or service account with read-only access to Git Sync (provisioning) connections can modify... 2d
High CVE-2026-76154 CVE-2026-76154 CVE Record 28d

Not in any source we poll

Listed rather than left blank: an empty field and an unmeasured one look identical on screen, and only one is a reason to look elsewhere.

No fixed version, patch or mitigation documented.
No confirmed IOCs, IP addresses, domains, file hashes, or malware artifacts supplied.
No organization-specific asset inventory, compensating-control status, or patch deployment evidence supplied.
No exploit packet captures, log samples, or incident case IDs supplied.

Answered from this record

Text assembled only from the fields above — no additional claims.

What should defenders know first?

CVE-2026-21724 is "Missing Protected-field Authorization in Provisioning Contact Points API", rated Medium. It affects Grafana (Grafana); versions are in the scope table. It is not in CISA KEV, which does not rule out exploitation. CVSS 4.3 describes technical severity. EPSS 0.26% estimates the probability of exploitation in 30 days; neither replaces your asset context. First verify whether exposed or business-critical assets run the affected versions, apply vendor fixes or mitigations, and preserve logs for review.

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