CVE-2024-28255

CRITICAL EXPLOITED IN THE WILD NUCLEI

OpenMetadata - Authentication Bypass

Title source: nuclei

Description

OpenMetadata is a unified platform for discovery, observability, and governance powered by a central metadata repository, in-depth lineage, and seamless team collaboration. The `JwtFilter` handles the API authentication by requiring and verifying JWT tokens. When a new request comes in, the request's path is checked against this list. When the request's path contains any of the excluded endpoints the filter returns without validating the JWT. Unfortunately, an attacker may use Path Parameters to make any path contain any arbitrary strings. For example, a request to `GET /api/v1;v1%2fusers%2flogin/events/subscriptions/validation/condition/111` will match the excluded endpoint condition and therefore will be processed with no JWT validation allowing an attacker to bypass the authentication mechanism and reach any arbitrary endpoint, including the ones listed above that lead to arbitrary SpEL expression injection. This bypass will not work when the endpoint uses the `SecurityContext.getUserPrincipal()` since it will return `null` and will throw an NPE. This issue may lead to authentication bypass and has been addressed in version 1.2.4. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability. This issue is also tracked as `GHSL-2023-237`.

Exploits (2)

nomisec WORKING POC 4 stars
by YongYe-Security · remote
https://github.com/YongYe-Security/CVE-2024-28255
metasploit WORKING POC EXCELLENT
rubypoc
https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/linux/http/openmetadata_auth_bypass_rce.rb

Nuclei Templates (1)

OpenMetadata - Authentication Bypass
CRITICALVERIFIEDby DhiyaneshDK,iamnooob
Shodan: http.favicon.hash:733091897

Scores

CVSS v3 9.8
EPSS 0.9392
EPSS Percentile 99.9%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

VulnCheck KEV 2024-04-17
InTheWild.io 2024-04-18
CWE
CWE-287
Status published
Products (1)
open-metadata/openmetadata < 1.2.4
Published Mar 15, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026