CVE-2023-25559

highpriority · track · 32OT risk · elevatedEPSS 0.005 · 44 %ileEUUS
grimoire priorityP2 · Scheduled
Exploitable?
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no known exploitation
Likely / severe?
0.52% (44th) EPSS
CVSS 8.1 · high
Is it mine?
2 products
Check your exposure
Who says so?
3 sources
cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

DataHub is an open-source metadata platform. When not using authentication for the metadata service, which is the default configuration, the Metadata service (GMS) will use the X-DataHub-Actor HTTP header to infer the user the frontend is sending the request on behalf of. When the backends retrieves the header, its name is retrieved in a case-insensitive way. This case differential can be abused by an attacker to smuggle an X-DataHub-Actor header with different casing (eg: X-DATAHUB-ACTOR). This issue may lead to an authorization bypass by allowing any user to impersonate the system user account and perform any actions on its behalf. This vulnerability was discovered and reported by the GitHub Security lab and is tracked as GHSL-2022-079.

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cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

8.2
010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v3.18.1highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 2.8 · impact 5.2
v3.18.2highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:Nsecondary · ENISA EU
v3.18.2highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:Nsecondary · security-advisories@github.comexploitability 1.8 · impact 5.8
v3.17.4highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)
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ssvc

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Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical Impact: totalcoordinatorcisa_ssvcUS
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affected products (2)

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also known as (2)

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published 2023-02-11modified 2026-06-17
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references (4)

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