- 7.3HighCVSS base score
- 0.30%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 77% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Unquoted Search Path or Element vulnerability in Grafana Alloy on Windows allows Privilege Escalation from Local User to SYSTEM This issue affects Alloy: before 1.3.3, from 1.4.0-rc.0 through 1.4.0-rc.1.
Timeline
ID reserved
By GRAFANA
- 7 days later
· 7 days later
Published
- 1 day later
· 1 day later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| GRAFANACNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.30% · top 77% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.3.
Affected products
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Gogithub.com/grafana/alloyGHSA-chqx-36rm-rf8h (opens in a new tab)
What to do
Solution: Uninstall Alloy, and then perform a clean install with version either 1.3.4 or 1.4.1 or a higher version
Workaround: Edit the registry to manually add the double quotes manually to `Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Alloy\ImagePath`
References
References4
- https://grafana.com/security/security-advisories/cve-2024-8975/ (opens in a new tab)
- https://grafana.com/blog/2024/09/25/grafana-alloy-and-grafana-agent-flow-security-release-high-severity-fix-for-cve-2024-8975-and-cve-2024-8996/ (opens in a new tab)
- https://github.com/grafana/alloy/releases/tag/v1.4.1 (opens in a new tab)
- https://github.com/grafana/alloy/releases/tag/v1.3.4 (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2024-2770 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-chqx-36rm-rf8h (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2024-8975)Record last updated .