High
Grafana Agent Flow on Windows Unquoted service path
Type: advisorySources: OSV
Unquoted Search Path or Element vulnerability in Grafana Agent (Flow mode) on Windows allows Privilege Escalation from Local User to SYSTEM This issue affects Agent Flow: before 0.43.2
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2024-8996
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 3 Nov 2026, 07:08 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Grafana Agent Flow on Windows Unquoted service path
core-osv · Original sourcePublished 25 Sept 2024, 16:45 UTC
Unquoted Search Path or Element vulnerability in Grafana Agent (Flow mode) on Windows allows Privilege Escalation from Local User to SYSTEM This issue affects Agent Flow: before 0.43.2
osv:CVE-2024-8996
Complete source record
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