An unauthenticated attacker can repeatedly call Grafana's OAuth login route with unique values, causing unbounded memory growth that can eventually exhaust memory and crash the Grafana instance (denial of service).
CVE-2026-8609
Score 5.3 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2026-07-10. NVD baseline CVSS 7.5; sources differ by 2.2.
- High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.
- CVSS v3
- 7.5
- EG Score
- 5.3(medium)
- EPSS
- 28.0%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
July 10, 2026
Last Modified
July 13, 2026
Advisory Details (1)
Auto-updated Jul 10, 2026Pre-authentication denial of service in the OAuth login route | Grafana Labs
https://grafana.com/security/security-advisories/cve-2026-8609Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-8609(1)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 14× in last 7d / 14× in last 30d)
Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.
- 2026-07-14 13:04 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-14 13:04 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-13 22:31 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-13 22:08 UTCNVD updateCVSS v3 → 7.5 · severity → HIGH
- 2026-07-13 13:43 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-13 13:43 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-13 06:13 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-12 14:22 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-12 14:22 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-12 05:46 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-11 15:00 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-11 15:00 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-10 15:38 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-10 15:37 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked
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