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Datahub HelmApplication · Datahub

CVE-2024-29037

CRITICAL · 9.1 CVSS v3.1 Published 2024-03-20
Fix available
A fix is available. Upgrade to 0.2.182 or later.
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100/100
Remediation priority · Urgent
Remotely reachable No privileges Zero-click Patch available

Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.

NVD · unedited
datahub-helm provides the Kubernetes Helm charts for deploying Datahub and its dependencies on a Kubernetes cluster. Starting in version 0.1.143 and prior to version 0.2.182, due to configuration issues in the helm chart, if there was a successful initial deployment during a limited window of time, personal access tokens were possibly created with a default secret key. Since the secret key is a static, publicly available value, someone could inspect the algorithm used to generate personal access tokens and generate their own for an instance. Deploying with Metadata Service Authentication enabled would have been difficult during window of releases. If someone circumvented the helm settings and manually set Metadata Service Authentication to be enabled using environment variables directly, this would skip over the autogeneration logic for the Kubernetes Secrets and DataHub GMS would default to the signing key specified statically in the application.yml. Most deployments probably did not attempt to circumvent the helm settings to enable Metadata Service Authentication during this time, so impact is most likely limited. Any deployments with Metadata Service Authentication enabled should ensure that their secret values are properly randomized. Version 0.2.182 contains a patch for this issue. As a workaround, one may reset the token signing key to be a random value, which will invalidate active personal access tokens.

Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.

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Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.

NVD · CPE data
Datahub HelmApplication
Affected:>= 0.1.143, < 0.2.182

CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.

From the vector
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
None

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

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dbcve · scoped
Upgrade available Upgrade to 0.2.182 or later
Fixed in 0.2.182
Vendor patch github.com →
Recommended fix High confidence

0.2.182

  1. Upgrade the Datahub Helm chart to version 0.2.182 or later: `helm upgrade <release-name> datahub/datahub --version 0.2.182`
  2. After upgrading, regenerate the token signing key by regenerating the Kubernetes secret that stores the JWT secret
  3. Rotate any personal access tokens that were created during the vulnerable period (versions 0.1.143 through 0.2.181)
  4. Verify that Metadata Service Authentication is properly enabled and using randomized secret values, not hardcoded defaults
  5. Confirm the new secret key is properly randomized and stored securely in Kubernetes secrets
Caveat May invalidate existing personal access tokens created during vulnerable versions; these will need to be regenerated

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