Grafana Agent (Flow mode) on Windows has Unquoted Search Path or Element vulnerability

HIGH 7.8CVE-2024-8996 · GHSA-m5gv-m5f9-wgv4 · GO-2024-3170 · Published 25/09/2024 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2024-8996 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.8) vulnerability affecting github.com/grafana/agent, agent (grafana).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.26%, higher than 18.3% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 0.43.3, 0.43.2 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
github.com/grafana/agent Go	`< 0.43.3`	`0.43.3`
agent grafana	`< 0.43.2`	`0.43.2`

Description

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 0.43.3.

NVD description

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

References

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