A vulnerability was found in Metabase and classified as problematic. This issue affects some unknown functionality of the component GeoJSON map URL Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. Impacted is confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

Metabase is data visualization software. Prior to versions 0.44.5, 1.44.5, 0.43.7, 1.43.7, 0.42.6, 1.42.6, 0.41.9, and 1.41.9, custom GeoJSON map URL address would follow redirects to addresses that were otherwise disallowed, like link-local or private-network. This issue is patched in versions 0.44.5, 1.44.5, 0.43.7, 1.43.7, 0.42.6, 1.42.6, 0.41.9, and 1.41.9. Metabase no longer follow redirects on GeoJSON map URLs. An environment variable `MB_CUSTOM_GEOJSON_ENABLED` was also added to disable custom GeoJSON completely (`true` by default).

The weakness was presented 10/27/2022 as GHSA-w5j7-4mgm-77f4. The advisory is shared at github.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2022-39359 since 09/02/2022. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1592 for this issue.

Upgrading to version 0.41.9, 0.42.6, 0.43.7, 0.44.5, 1.41.9, 1.42.6, 1.43.7 or 1.44.5 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch 057e2d67fcbeb6b48db68b697e022243e3a5771e is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

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