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CVE-2026-40179

VendorprometheusProductprometheusDiscoveredApr 15, 2026UpdatedApr 22, 2026

Prometheus is an open-source monitoring system and time series database. Versions 3.0 through 3.5.1 and 3.6.0 through 3.11.1 have stored cross-site scripting vulnerabilities in multiple components of the Prometheus web UI where metric names and label values are injected into innerHTML without escaping. In both the Mantine UI and old React UI, chart tooltips on the Graph page render metric names containing HTML/JavaScript without sanitization. In the old React UI, the Metric Explorer fuzzy search results use dangerouslySetInnerHTML without escaping, and heatmap cell tooltips interpolate le label values without sanitization. With Prometheus v3.x defaulting to UTF-8 metric and label name validation, characters like , and " are now valid in metric names and labels. An attacker who can inject…

CVSS v3.1
6.1 MEDIUM
EPSS
0.26%
probability of exploitation in 30 days
CISA KEV
Not listed
no confirmed exploitation reported
News coverage
0
sources referencing this CVE
Related IOCs
0
seen in the same coverage
EPSS Trend
Aug 16, 2026 → Oct 22, 2026
● 0.00pp
0.26% → 0.26% over 3 tracked changes
CVSS v3.1 Detail
Attack VectorNETWORK
Attack ComplexityLOW
Privileges RequiredNONE
User InteractionREQUIRED
ScopeCHANGED
ConfidentialityLOW
IntegrityLOW
AvailabilityNONE
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Connections
2 relationships
Timeline
disclosure → media coverage
Apr 15, 2026
Disclosure — published as a CVE record. · last revised by NVD Apr 22, 2026
Public PoC (1)
Unverified third-party code — review before executing.