CVE-2023-25557 Server-Side Request Forgery in DataHub

High 7.5 Published 10 Feb 2023 Updated 10 Mar 2025

Attackers can exploit a proxy flaw in DataHub to reroute requests to arbitrary hosts, potentially accessing internal services or sensitive data.

Exploited in the wild: Not known
Login needed: Not needed
Attackable: Over the internet
Victim action needed: Not needed
Fix: None listed

What is CVE-2023-25557?

CVE-2023-25557 is a high-severity server-side request forgery vulnerability in datahub-project datahub, published on 10 Feb 2023. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

DataHub is an open-source metadata platform. The DataHub frontend acts as a proxy able to forward any REST or GraphQL requests to the backend. The goal of this proxy is to perform authentication if needed and forward HTTP requests to the DataHub Metadata Store (GMS). It has been discovered that the proxy does not adequately construct the URL when forwarding data to GMS, allowing external users to reroute requests from the DataHub Frontend to any arbitrary hosts. As a result attackers may be able to reroute a request from originating from the frontend proxy to any other server and return the result. This vulnerability was discovered and reported by the GitHub Security lab and is tracked as GHSL-2022-076.

Weakness: CWE-918

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-25557?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Datahub Datahub.

How do I fix CVE-2023-25557?

No fix has been published for CVE-2023-25557 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and send outbound requests through an allow-list that blocks internal addresses. More about Server-side request forgery.

Is CVE-2023-25557 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-25557 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-5w2h-q83m-65xg.