SpEL Injection in `PUT /api/v1/policies` in OpenMetadata

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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-28253",
  "method": "structured",
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    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "SpEL Injection in `PUT /api/v1/policies` in OpenMetadata",
    "summary": "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.",
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    "severity": "critical",
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      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:46.397546600Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://codeql.github.com/codeql-query-help/java/java-spel-expression-injection",
        "https://github.com/open-metadata/OpenMetadata/blob/b6b337e09a05101506a5faba4b45d370cc3c9fc8/openmetadata-service/src/main/java/org/openmetadata/service/jdbi3/EntityRepository.java#L693",
        "https://github.com/open-metadata/OpenMetadata/blob/b6b337e09a05101506a5faba4b45d370cc3c9fc8/openmetadata-service/src/main/java/org/openmetadata/service/resources/EntityResource.java#L219",
        "https://github.com/open-metadata/OpenMetadata/blob/b6b337e09a05101506a5faba4b45d370cc3c9fc8/openmetadata-service/src/main/java/org/openmetadata/service/resources/policies/PolicyResource.java#L365",
        "https://github.com/open-metadata/OpenMetadata/blob/main/openmetadata-service/src/main/java/org/openmetadata/service/jdbi3/PolicyRepository.java#L113",
        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/28xxx/CVE-2024-28253.json",
        "https://github.com/open-metadata/OpenMetadata/security/advisories/GHSA-7vf4-x5m2-r6gr",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-28253"
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 514620,
  "published_at": "2024-03-15T19:55:39.72+00:00"
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