On August 8, 2026, Metabase disclosed a maximum-severity SQL injection flaw (CVSS 10.0) that was already being exploited in the wild. The vulnerability lets unauthenticated attackers gain administrator privileges and drain every connected database. Self-hosted Metabase admins must patch, revoke sessions, and rotate all secrets immediately.

On August 5, 2026, Huntress researchers documented an attack where the khunt toolkit was compiled and executed inside an Oracle database via SQL injection on an Apache Tomcat endpoint. Attackers abused Oracle's embedded JVM to run OS commands with SYSTEM privileges, steal Windows hashes, and map the network. The message to DBAs is clear: your database is a full Java runtime — treat it like one.