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Metabase

Metabase is an open-source business intelligence tool that lets organizations query databases and build dashboards, also offered as a hosted Cloud service.

Known aliases

  • Metabase analytics platform
  • Metabase Cloud

Current stories

security1 publisherOne report

JPCERT/CC links Japan's data-leak run to app APIs and BI tools owners thought were internal

JPCERT/CC says attackers abused mobile-app APIs and exploited a known Metabase flaw in a leak run Macnica puts at 119 Japanese incidents this year. Some leaks came from BI tools and staff systems their owners never expected outsiders to reach, so the alert asks for access control on every endpoint, public or not.

Reality

Evidence60
Adoption
Insufficient
Hype gap+10
Incentives
Insufficient
Confidence55
security3 publishersConfirmed

Trezor says ShipMonk kept 67,000 customer records it had certified as deleted

The records cover orders placed between November 2019 and August 2021, years past the 90-day deletion window Trezor advertises. Trezor says it held repeated written confirmation from ShipMonk that the data was gone.

Perspective Coverage

3 publishers
Builder
Builder 30%
Operator
Operator 55%
Investor
Investor 15%

Reality

Evidence62
Adoption
Insufficient
Hype gap+8
Incentives64
Confidence66
security4 publishersConfirmed

Intruders reached Mathspace's unpatched Metabase four days after the fix shipped

Metabase published a critical fix on August 6, Mathspace's escalation process never surfaced it, and by the time the update went in on August 29 an intruder had been inside the reporting instance for 19 days and had already exported 1,079,819 records.

Perspective Coverage

4 publishers
Builder
Builder 36%
Operator
Operator 53%
Investor
Investor 11%

Reality

Evidence78
Adoption
Insufficient
Hype gap+5
Incentives45
Confidence74
security4 publishersConfirmed

Attackers phished Trezor, BitBox and CoinTracking customers through one shared newsletter provider

Brevo says an intruder reached 120 customer accounts and used them to mail phishing from those customers' own domains. Three crypto companies confirmed their newsletter lists were hit. Only one named the provider.

Perspective Coverage

4 publishers
Builder
Builder 15%
Operator
Operator 69%
Investor
Investor 16%

Reality

Evidence68
Adoption
Insufficient
Hype gap−20
Incentives40
Confidence70