HIGHIncident ResponseOct 8, 2026 · 6 min
The SQLite File That Exposed a Monitoring Environment
A three-year-old Grafana path traversal led to a plaintext database, then to Zabbix API access, then to a full infrastructure map.
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A three-year-old Grafana path traversal led to a plaintext database, then to Zabbix API access, then to a full infrastructure map.
Two unauthenticated CouchDB nodes held India's entire Do-Not-Disturb registry — 245 million phone preferences, 7 million consent records and full residential PII — behind nothing but an open port.
A single unauthenticated HTTP GET returned the entire production secrets bundle for a customer-facing WhatsApp lead-generation bot — database, messaging provider, voice AI, LLM proxy and webhook secrets, all served as plain text.