# OpenMetadata vulnerable to SpEL Injection in \`PUT /api/v1/policies\` (\`GHSL-2023-252\`)

Advisory record · `GHSA-7vf4-x5m2-r6gr`

- **Identifiers:** `GHSA-7vf4-x5m2-r6gr` · `CVE-2024-28253`
- **State:** Confirmed
- **Severity:** CVSS 9.4 Critical
- **Critical:** Yes: CVSS 9+, CVSS 7+ and EPSS
- **Weakness (CWE):** [CWE-94](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/94.html)
- **Tags:** [Code injection](https://agentprime.io/advisories/tag/code-injection.md)
- **Published:** 23 Apr 2024
- **Updated:** 10 Sept 2026
- **Reviewed by a person:** No

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 23 Apr 2024, 21:11 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

## Critical

Critical, because:

- CVSS score 9.4: 9.0 or more.
- CVSS score 9.4 (7.0 or more) and EPSS 0.13 (0.1 or more): a high score and a real chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

How we decide what’s critical: <https://agentprime.io/advisories/critical.md>

## Affected packages

- `org.open-metadata:openmetadata-service` (Maven): affected `<1.3.1`; fixed in `1.3.1`

## Machine-written summary

Summary written by Claude Haiku from the source advisory. Not reviewed by a person.

> OpenMetadata's openmetadata-service Maven package, versions before 1.3.1, is vulnerable to SpEL injection through the PUT /api/v1/policies endpoint. An authenticated user who sends a crafted policy expression can execute arbitrary system commands on the server, which is remote code execution. Upgrade to version 1.3.1 or later; the source gives no workaround.

Written 2 Nov 2026.

## Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our analysis of this Advisory yet. Once a person has reviewed it, this page will say what’s vulnerable, what has to be true for your app to be affected, and how to check.

## Severity and exploitation

- 9.4 Critical, CVSS 3.1: `CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L`, from CNA (GitHub_M)

- **CISA KEV:** Not listed.
- **EPSS:** 0.13, the 96th percentile, on 14 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

## Timeline

- 31 Oct 2026, 14:17 UTC: First seen by agentprime
- 31 Oct 2026, 14:17 UTC: [Confirmed by OSV](https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-7vf4-x5m2-r6gr)

## Sources

- [GitHub Advisory Database: GHSA-7vf4-x5m2-r6gr](https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-7vf4-x5m2-r6gr)
- [OSV: GHSA-7vf4-x5m2-r6gr](https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-7vf4-x5m2-r6gr)
- <https://github.com/open-metadata/OpenMetadata/security/advisories/GHSA-7vf4-x5m2-r6gr>
- <https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-28253>
- <https://codeql.github.com/codeql-query-help/java/java-spel-expression-injection>
- <https://github.com/open-metadata/OpenMetadata>
- <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://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2023-235_GHSL-2023-237_Open_Metadata>

Facts on this page come from the GitHub Advisory Database (CC-BY 4.0), OSV and the other sources listed, as published. We don’t reproduce full advisory descriptions, which can contain exploit code.

## Check whether this affects you

A Match means an installed version is in the affected range above. Most don’t affect the app; agentprime hasn’t analysed this one yet.

- With the agentprime MCP server (<https://api.agentprime.io/mcp>), ask your agent to check the project: `check_lockfile` sends a lockfile, `check_packages` a list of installed packages, and both return the Matches and the upgrades that clear them. `get_advisory` returns this record. Setup: <https://agentprime.io/mcp.md>
- In a browser: <https://agentprime.io/check/> reads your lockfile in the browser, never uploading it.
- Whether it touches your code, with file and line: the Claude Code plugin, <https://agentprime.io/plugin.md>
- As JSON: <https://api.agentprime.io/v1/advisories/GHSA-7vf4-x5m2-r6gr>, or `POST https://api.agentprime.io/v1/match` with your packages (<https://agentprime.io/api.md>)

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