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GHSA-P4R4-XVRQ-GVMC

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-04-24 09:30 – Updated: 2026-04-24 09:30

Details

Tempo queries with large limits can cause large memory allocations which can impact the availability of the service, depending on its deployment strategy.

Mitigation can be done by setting max_result_limit in the search config, e.g. to 262144 (2^18).

Severity ?

7.5 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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CVE-2026-21728 (GCVE-0-2026-21728)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-04-24 08:00 – Updated: 2026-04-24 13:06

Title

Tempo query limit results in unbounded memory allocation

Summary

Tempo queries with large limits can cause large memory allocations which can impact the availability of the service, depending on its deployment strategy. Mitigation can be done by setting max_result_limit in the search config, e.g. to 262144 (2^18).

Severity ?

7.5 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE

CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Assigner

GRAFANA

References

URL

Tags

https://grafana.com/security/security-advisories/…

vendor-advisory

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	Grafana	Tempo	Affected: v1.3.0 , < v2.11.0 (semver)

Date Public ?

2026-02-23 07:40

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GHSA-P4R4-XVRQ-GVMC

CVE-2026-21728 (GCVE-0-2026-21728)

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