`CVE-2024-28253`

9.4 Critical Mitigation candidate

Description

OpenMetadata is a unified platform for discovery, observability, and governance powered by a central metadata repository, in-depth lineage, and seamless team collaboration. CompiledRule::validateExpression is also called from PolicyRepository.prepare. prepare() is called from EntityRepository.prepareInternal() which, in turn, gets called from EntityResource.createOrUpdate(). Note that even though there is an authorization check (authorizer.authorize()), it gets called after prepareInternal() gets called and therefore after the SpEL expression has been evaluated. In order to reach this method, an attacker can send a PUT request to /api/v1/policies which gets handled by PolicyResource.createOrUpdate(). This vulnerability was discovered with the help of CodeQL's Expression language injection (Spring) query and is also tracked as GHSL-2023-252. This issue may lead to Remote Code Execution and has been addressed in version 1.3.1. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

CWE-94 · Code injection

Exploitation Status

Working exploit published

A reviewed exploit catalogue carries this CVE. Somebody has published code a stranger can run.

CVSS E:P

CISA KEV not listed
CISA Vulnrichment exploitation: none
Indexed PoC 1 indexed Published artifacts you can open, in Nuclei.
EPSS 13% chance in 30 days A model prediction, not an observation. Higher than 96% of all scored CVEs.

Index	Artifact	Stars	First seen
Nuclei	OpenMetaData - SpEL Injection in PUT /api/v1/policies

Index

Artifact

Stars

First seen

Nuclei

OpenMetaData - SpEL Injection in PUT /api/v1/policies

Waratek Defense Posture

Mitigation candidate

A defect of the type ARMR addresses, with a fix path to work from and a working exploit already published. This is a claim on attention, not a scheduling commitment: no rule exists and none is scheduled.

Protection none
Action unverified patch rule
Review automated inferred
Record active

Decided by open-source-maven : The affected package being open source on Maven, so the fix can be read

Finding This CVE affects an open-source Java library published on Maven Central (Maven packages: org.open-metadata:openmetadata-service), so it is squarely in ARMR's territory and the source needed to understand the defect is public. That makes it a candidate for an ARMR patch rule. No rule exists and none is scheduled: the diff between the affected and fixed versions has not been read, and a closer look may find no hook point ARMR can act on.

Decided by	`open-source-maven` : The affected package being open source on Maven, so the fix can be read
Finding	This CVE affects an open-source Java library published on Maven Central (Maven packages: org.open-metadata:openmetadata-service), so it is squarely in ARMR's territory and the source needed to understand the defect is public. That makes it a candidate for an ARMR patch rule. No rule exists and none is scheduled: the diff between the affected and fixed versions has not been read, and a closer look may find no hook point ARMR can act on.

CVSS

9.4 CRITICAL v3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L 2 metrics

VRT selects the newest version's highest entry and publishes it as cvssScore, newest rather than largest because scores are not comparable across versions, and highest rather than first because the first entry is frequently a CNA placeholder scoring 0.0 over NVD's own analysis.

Version Score Band Vector Assigner Type

CVSS 3.1 9.4 CRITICAL CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L security-advisories@github.com Secondary published

CVSS 3.1 8.8 HIGH CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H NVD Primary

Version	Score	Band	Vector	Assigner	Type
CVSS 3.1	9.4	CRITICAL	`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L`	security-advisories@github.com	Secondary	published
CVSS 3.1	8.8	HIGH	`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`	NVD	Primary

Affected Software & Releases

☕ Maven Library Packages

Artifact coordinates and fix boundaries from OSV.dev

Package Coordinate Introduced Fixed Last affected

org.open-metadata:openmetadata-service 0 1.3.1 unbounded

Package Coordinate	Introduced	Fixed	Last affected
`org.open-metadata:openmetadata-service`	0	`1.3.1`	unbounded

🖥️ Product CPEs & Version Ranges

2 product(s) over 2 version claims (uncapped)

Source	Vendor	Product	Scheme	Affected Versions
nvd	open-metadata	openmetadata	generic	＜ 1.3.1
osv	org.open-metadata	openmetadata-service	generic	＜ 1.3.1

Source

Vendor

Product

Scheme

Affected Versions

nvd

open-metadata

openmetadata

generic

＜ 1.3.1

osv

org.open-metadata

openmetadata-service

generic

＜ 1.3.1

References

URL	Tags
https://github.com/open-metadata/OpenMetadata/security/advisories/GHSA-7vf4-x5m2-r6gr	WEB
https://codeql.github.com/codeql-query-help/java/java-spel-expression-injection	WEB
https://github.com/open-metadata/OpenMetadata	PACKAGE
https://github.com/open-metadata/OpenMetadata/blob/b6b337e09a05101506a5faba4b45d370cc3c9fc8/openmetadata-service/src/main/java/org/openmetadata/service/jdbi3/EntityRepository.java#L693	WEB
https://github.com/open-metadata/OpenMetadata/blob/b6b337e09a05101506a5faba4b45d370cc3c9fc8/openmetadata-service/src/main/java/org/openmetadata/service/resources/EntityResource.java#L219	WEB
https://github.com/open-metadata/OpenMetadata/blob/b6b337e09a05101506a5faba4b45d370cc3c9fc8/openmetadata-service/src/main/java/org/openmetadata/service/resources/policies/PolicyResource.java#L365	WEB
https://github.com/open-metadata/OpenMetadata/blob/main/openmetadata-service/src/main/java/org/openmetadata/service/jdbi3/PolicyRepository.java#L113	WEB
https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2023-235_GHSL-2023-237_Open_Metadata	ADVISORY

URL

Timeline

Published 2024-03-15 Last modified 2026-06-17

Published	2024-03-15	By the CVE Program.
NVD record modified	2026-06-17	NVD's own last-modified date for this record.

Published

2024-03-15

By the CVE Program.

NVD record modified

2026-06-17

NVD's own last-modified date for this record.

Pipeline policy audit (15 of 21 rules evaluated)

15 of 21 rules ran. The rest were never reached, because an earlier stage settled the CVE, a distinct claim from a rule that ran and found nothing.

# Rule Outcome Status Detail

identity: Does this identifier describe a vulnerability at all? first match wins

1 rejected no-match CVE Program withdrawal of this identifier

scope: Is the vulnerability ARMR's to address? first match wins

2 armr-patch-file no-match An ARMR patch file on disk for this CVE

3 armr-secure-rule-file no-match An ARMR security-rule template on disk for this CVE

4 manual-classification no-match A researcher's recorded decision for this specific CVE

5 manual classification no-match Manual classification of this CVE in the legacy dataset

6 non-java-upstream no-match A root cause in non-Java code: an OS kernel, a C library, or a bundled runtime

7 oracle-component no-match The defect being in a component of a tracked product the agent does not reach: JavaFX, the Java SE installer, the native WebLogic proxy plug-in. Oracle gives these no CPE of their own and names them only in the description.

8 osv-maven matched Queued for review Maven packages: org.open-metadata:openmetadata-service

9 cna-maven-package not-reached An affected Maven artifact named by the CNA itself

10 known-cpe-product not-reached An NVD CPE naming a product ARMR tracks

11 cna-cpe-product not-reached A CPE the CNA published naming a tracked product. Oracle publishes these on advisory day, months before NVD.

12 oracle-advisory-family not-reached A tracked product family named in Oracle's own risk matrix. CPE cannot carry a suite name, only a module.

13 non-deployable-product not-reached The only affected product being a sealed appliance image, where Java runs but no -javaagent can be attached

14 unmatched-product not-reached No tracked product matched above, and none present at all

disposition: What do we do about one that is? cumulative: every rule gets a turn

15 patch-hint no-match A reference pointing at the upstream fix: a commit, a PR, a Red Hat bug

16 open-source-maven decided it matched Mitigation candidate Open-source Maven artifact indexed by OSV (Maven packages: org.open-metadata:openmetadata-service). The source is public, which makes an ARMR patch rule a candidate; nothing here establishes that one can be written.

17 poc-derivable skipped An indexed exploit to reverse-engineer, where there is no source to read

18 no-exploit skipped With no fix path, a public exploit, or a CISA record of one

19 secure-rule-match no-match A vulnerability class already blocked by an ARMR security rule

20 below-action-threshold no-match Severity is CRITICAL — only MEDIUM/LOW are deprioritized

21 no-exploit-published no-match A KEV listing, a CISA verdict of active exploitation, or a reviewed exploit catalogue carries this CVE — somebody has published a working exploit, so it stays a candidate

What the scope rules read

The products the record named, and whether known-products.yaml tracks them. This is the evidence the scope stage decided on.

Vendor Product Tracked CPE Source

open-metadata openmetadata not tracked cpe:2.3:a:open-metadata:openmetadata:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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