Patch
🔥 CyberForge CVE of the Day #025
🚨 CVE-2026-72898 — Metabase Unauthenticated SQL Injection to Admin Takeover
Metabase has patched a maximum-severity SQL injection that was actively exploited as a zero-day.
An unauthenticated remote attacker can target the public password-reset endpoint, inject arbitrary SQL into the Metabase application database and obtain administrator access.
🔑 Key details
⭐ Severity: Critical — CVSS 10.0
⭐ CWE-89: SQL Injection
⭐ Authentication: None
⭐ User interaction: None
⭐ Attack complexity: Low
⭐ Active exploitation: Confirmed
⭐ CISA KEV: Yes — deadline already passed
⭐ Public weaponised PoCs: Available
🎯 Vulnerable endpoint:
POST /api/session/reset_password
Successful takeover could allow attackers to alter configuration, create privileged access, steal stored database credentials, query connected data sources and export sensitive information.
🧩 Minimum safe releases
• 0/1.58.24
• 0/1.59.21
• 0/1.60.17
• 0/1.61.11
• 0/1.62.9
• 0/1.63.5
🕵️ Official compromise pattern
• POST /api/session/reset_password → HTTP 400
• Followed by GET /api/user/current → HTTP 200
Metabase warns that finding this sequence in application or ingress logs means the instance is likely compromised.
🛡️ Defender action:
Patch immediately, block the vulnerable endpoint until the upgrade is verified, revoke every active session, audit administrators and API keys, rotate all connected-database credentials, and inspect Metabase plus data-warehouse logs for unauthorised queries or exports.
⚠️ Important:
This is not CVE-2026-72899, which targets field filters on publicly shared dashboards.
⚔️ CyberForge verdict: Maximum priority—patch, contain and investigate. Patching stops future exploitation; it does not remove forged sessions or recover stolen credentials.
🔗 Full advisory:
https://github.com/metabase/metabase/security/advisories/GHSA-vwf4-m7j8-wcjf
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Post summary
The advisory confirms that Metabase’s CVE‑2026‑72898, a critical SQL injection, is actively exploited; it provides patch releases, mitigation guidance, and references to weaponised PoCs, urging immediate remediation.