Medium
Server-side expression parser denial of service
Type: advisorySources: Official CVE List
A user with the Viewer role in Grafana can crash the server by submitting a crafted server-side math expression (uncontrolled recursion). A user with permission to provision alert rules can make the outage persist across restarts.
- Products
- Grafana Enterprise, Grafana OSS
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2026-88858
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 17:45 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Server-side expression parser denial of service
core-cve · Original sourcePublished 28 Oct 2026, 16:50 UTC
A user with the Viewer role in Grafana can crash the server by submitting a crafted server-side math expression (uncontrolled recursion). A user with permission to provision alert rules can make the outage persist across restarts.
cve:CVE-2026-88858
Grafana OSS
Fixed versions: Not specified
Grafana Enterprise
Fixed versions: Not specified
Complete source record
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