CVE-2023-23629 Metabase subject to Improper Privilege Management
Users with limited data access can subscribe to dashboards created by privileged users, gaining unauthorized access to restricted data via email.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2023-23629?
CVE-2023-23629 is a medium-severity vulnerability in metabase, published on 28 Jan 2023. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
Metabase is an open source data analytics platform. Affected versions are subject to Improper Privilege Management. As intended, recipients of dashboards subscriptions can view the data as seen by the creator of that subscription. This allows someone with greater access to data to create a dashboard subscription, add people with fewer data privileges, and all recipients of that subscription receive the same data: the charts shown in the email would abide by the privileges of the user who created the subscription. The issue is users with fewer privileges who can view a dashboard are able to add themselves to a dashboard subscription created by someone with additional data privileges, and thus get access to more data via email. This issue is patched in versions 0.43.7.1, 1.43.7.1, 0.44.6.1, 1.44.6.1, 0.45.2.1, and 1.45.2.1. On Metabase instances running Enterprise Edition, admins can disable the "Subscriptions and Alerts" permission for groups that have restricted data permissions, as a workaround.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-23629?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Metabase Metabase.
How do I fix CVE-2023-23629?
No fix has been published for CVE-2023-23629 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2023-23629 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-23629 in the wild and no public exploit code.
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Sources
Also known as GHSA-ch8f-hhq9-7gv5.