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Medium 5.3Published Apr 15, 2026

CVE-2026-21726Loki Path Traversal - CVE-2021-36156 Bypass

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It affects Grafana Loki. Add what you run to find out whether that includes you.

No exploitation reported and no EPSS estimate yet.

The CVE-2021-36156 fix validates the namespace parameter for path traversal sequences after a single URL decode, by double encoding, an attacker can read files at the Ruler API endpoint /loki/api/v1/rules/{namespace} Thanks to Prasanth Sundararajan for reporting this vulnerability.

CVSS
5.3 MEDIUM (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-22
Known exploited
Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by
GRAFANA
NVD analysis
Analyzed
Record last updated
Aug 27, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals
Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products
Grafana Loki
grafana:loki (from the name)
from 2.3.0 before 3.5.9
CNA record
grafana loki
grafana:loki
before 3.6.4
NVD

References

References

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CVE-2026-21726: Loki Path Traversal - CVE-2021-36156 Bypass | InfoSec Signals