Metabase versions before 0.63.1 fail to enforce data analyst permission checks on glossary API endpoints, allowing any authenticated user to create, modify, and delete glossary entries. Attackers can submit requests to POST, PUT, and DELETE glossary endpoints to tamper with instance-wide business glossary data without proper authorization.
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Description Metabase versions before 0.63.1 fail to enforce data analyst permission checks on glossary API endpoints, allowing any authenticated user to create, modify, and delete glossary entries. Attackers can submit requests to POST, PUT, and DELETE glossary endpoints to tamper with instance-wide business glossary data without proper authorization.
Title Metabase before 0.63.1 Missing Function-Level Authorization on the Glossary Management API
First Time appeared Metabase
Metabase metabase
Weaknesses CWE-862
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:metabase:metabase:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Metabase
Metabase metabase
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N'}

cvssV4_0

{'score': 7.1, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: VulnCheck

Published:

Updated: 2026-09-05T09:59:06.683Z

Reserved: 2026-09-05T01:59:20.944Z

Link: CVE-2026-86116

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-09-05T10:16:42.713

Modified: 2026-09-05T10:16:42.713

Link: CVE-2026-86116

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Updated: 2026-09-05T11:30:05Z

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