Threats / Metabase / CVE-2026-72898

CVE-2026-72898 · EUVD no mirror located · GCVE no mirror located Verified 2026-08-11

Metabase vulnerability

Metabase contains a SQL Injection vulnerability that allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to inject arbitrary SQL into the Metabase application database, which can give them administrator access to the instance. From there, the attacke

Verdict

Today item — known-exploited.

Confirmed exploited in the wild (CISA KEV). Prioritize remediation now and verify exposure.

CISA KEV Yes · 2026-08-11⁵EPSS 0.0069 (verify live)⁶CVSS 10³CISA SSVC Exploitation: active · Automatable: yes · Impact: total⁴

Is it exploitable?

— the evidence, ranked above the score

Reported exploitation

2 independent public reports of in-the-wild exploitation are cataloged.Distinct reporting sources (vendor, incident response, government); open them for the underlying claims.

metabase.com ↗kevintel.com ↗Confirmed

Exploited in the wild

Listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2026-08-11).

CISA KEV ↗Confirmed

Probability (EPSS)

EPSS 0.0069 — modeled likelihood of exploitation activity.EPSS is a daily-changing model output — open the source for today's value.

FIRST EPSS ↗High

Severity / affected

CVSS 10 (CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H) · Affected: Metabase, Metabase. Confirm exact fixed builds in the vendor advisory.CVSS — CNA-assigned (CVE.org), version 4.0, set at disclosure.

CVE.org ↗Reported

Weakness (CWE)

Mapped to CWE-89 SQL Injection — weakness family: Injection.CWE — CNA-assigned (CVE.org); the weakness class drives how the flaw is exploited.

CVE.org ↗Reported

CISA SSVC (triage disposition)

Exploitation: active · Automatable: yes · Technical Impact: totalCISA's own stakeholder-specific triage inputs, published in the CVE record (CISA Coordinator role). NOTE: this is CISA's three decision points; the final Act/Attend/Track decision also requires a Mission & Well-being input not published here, so no overall decision is asserted.

CISA-ADP ↗Reported

Currency of the record

CISA added this to its KEV catalog 1 day after the CVE record was published.KEV lag = CISA-KEV dateAdded − CVE.org datePublished; a floor on how long the known-exploited flaw sat in the public record before the federal catalog listed it. Severity/weakness here is CNA- or CISA-assigned (current at disclosure), independent of NVD's analysis backlog.

CISA KEV ↗CVE.org ↗Reported

WeaknessCWE-89 · SQL InjectionInjection

Who’s exploiting it?

— attribution turns risk into urgency

Attribution not established

No confirmed (advisory-backed) threat-actor attribution is established for this record. Absence of a named actor is not absence of compromise — see Coverage & confidence.

Why it matters

— the attack path, told twice: adversary, then board

Attacker/business narrative framing is pending triage for this record — see Coverage & confidence below. Facts and verdict above are derived deterministically from the public feed.

What to do

— defensible action

Remediate per the vendor advisory — confirm the fixed build for your version and verify exposure.¹

Say it to the boardA vulnerability with this evidence profile is a defensible budget line, not a backlog ticket — fund the change against the proof above.

Coverage & confidence

— what we know, and what we don’t

Established (cited)

KEV listing (CISA)

EPSS probability (FIRST)

2 reported-exploitation source(s)

CVSS 10 — CNA-assigned (CVE.org)

CISA SSVC triage disposition (CVE.org ADP)

CWE weakness mapping — CNA-assigned (CVE.org)

Catalogued by cisa-cg (CNA)

Coverage gaps — stated, not hidden

No EUVD / GCVE mirror in feed — single-authority dependency for the identifier.

EPSS & exposure are time-varying; verify live at the source.

Threat-actor attribution not established from feed data — absence of a name is not absence of compromise.

No finder/reporter credit recorded in the public CVE entry — the work behind this find is unattributed.

Attacker/business narrative framing pending triage.

Disclosure & credit²

Catalogued by cisa-cgCNA

Credited with finding itNo finder named in the public CVE record — the work behind this find is unattributed.

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