CVE-2026-72898 — Metabase
CRITICALCVE-2026-72898 is a critical-severity (CVSS 10) SQL Injection vulnerability in metabase metabase. It is in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2026-08-11) — treat it as actively exploited and patch now. A fix is available — see the affected versions and patch details below.
Metabase allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to inject arbitrary SQL via the '/reset_password' database endpoint and gain administrator access to the connected Metabase instance.
Exploitation Status
Actively exploited in the wild
- Confirmed by CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2026-08-11. Federal agencies were required to remediate by 2026-08-14.
- CISA assesses this as automatable — exploitation doesn’t require manual, per-target effort, which raises the odds of mass scanning and opportunistic attacks.
- A successful exploit gives an attacker total control of the affected component, not partial access.
Exploitation and automatability from CISA (KEV catalog and SSVC triage) for CVE-2026-72898.
EPSS Exploitation Probability
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.
How urgent is this, really
Where this sits among everything scored
Description
Metabase allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to inject arbitrary SQL via the '/reset_password' database endpoint and gain administrator access to the connected Metabase instance.
Affected Products
metabasemetabaseResearch use only. For defensive security, authorized penetration testing, and academic research only. Never execute exploit code against systems without explicit written authorization.
Detection & mitigation playbook
Vendor / applianceDetect
Inventory every metabase metabase deployment and check each version against the affected-products list above.
Fix
Apply the metabase metabase security patch or hotfix for CVE-2026-72898 on the affected version, following the vendor advisory for your exact build.
Workarounds
Until you can upgrade, make sure every query built from user input uses parameterised statements or a prepared-statement API rather than string concatenation, and reduce the database account's privileges so an injected query cannot read or alter data beyond what the feature needs. Alongside that, restrict the management interface to trusted networks and apply the vendor's recommended configuration mitigations.
How to detect CVE-2026-72898
A community-maintained Nuclei template exists for this CVE. You can scan for it directly:
nuclei -id cve-2026-72898 -u https://target- Template
- Metabase - Unauthenticated SQL Injection
- Severity
- critical
- Impact
- Remote unauthenticated attackers can execute arbitrary SQL and gain administrator access to the Metabase instance.
- Remediation
- Update to the latest version of Metabase.
Template by ProjectDiscovery nuclei-templates (0x_Akoko, pdteam), MIT licensed. View the full template. Scan only systems you are authorised to test.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is CVE-2026-72898 being exploited in your environment?
Detect and block the exploit chain at execution, on systems you cannot patch yet.