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CVE-2021-36156

21
FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-36156 is a directory traversal vulnerability affecting Grafana Loki versions through 2.2.1. An unauthenticated attacker can craft the X-Scope-OrgID header to include directory traversal sequences, causing Loki to attempt to parse arbitrary files and leak their contents within error messages. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.3 (Medium), indicating low impact on confidentiality and no impact on integrity or availability, with a network attack vector and low attack complexity. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 2.2.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:grafana:loki:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.3MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
1.4
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.49%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
71.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0149 is in the 54th percentile among its peer group of 23,725 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (4)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
gopatch availablevia ghsa
Product: github.com/grafana/lokiFixed in: 2.3.0
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: OpenShift Service Mesh 2.1Fixed in: servicemesh-grafana
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4Fixed in: openshift4/ose-grafana

Vendor Advisories (2)

goGHSA-grj5-8x6q-hc9qmedium

Path traversal in Grafana Loki

Sep 2, 2021
redhatCVE-2021-36156Moderate

loki: Path traversal in Grafana Loki

Aug 3, 2021

References

github.com / grafana/loki/pull/4020
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
github.com / grafana/loki/releases/tag/v2.3.0
PatchThird Party Advisory