CVE-2024-8975: Grafana Alloy on Windows Unquoted service path

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2024-09-25 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-428

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.

Affected products

Grafana Alloy: before 1.3.3; 1.4.0-rc0, 1.4.0-rc1 — fixed in 1.3.3

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Grafana Alloy 1.3.3. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://github.com/grafana/alloy/releases/tag/v1.3.4
https://github.com/grafana/alloy/releases/tag/v1.4.1
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/
https://grafana.com/security/security-advisories/cve-2024-8975/

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