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Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

Published

2025-02-05 07:30

Modified

2026-09-08 08:34

Summary

Details

While investigating a bug report on Apache Superset, it was determined that an authenticated user could craft requests via a number of templated text fields in the product that would allow arbitrary access to Python’s os package in the web application process in versions < 0.37.1. It was thus possible for an authenticated user to list and access files, environment variables, and process information. Additionally it was possible to set environment variables for the current process, create and update files in folders writable by the web process, and execute arbitrary programs accessible by the web process. All other operations available to the os package in Python were also available, even if not explicitly enumerated in this CVE.

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  "id": "BIT-superset-2020-13948",
  "modified": "2026-09-08T08:34:36.952Z",
  "published": "2025-02-05T07:30:08.799Z",
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CVE-2020-13948 (GCVE-0-2020-13948)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-09-17 12:31 – Updated: 2024-08-04 12:32

Summary

While investigating a bug report on Apache Superset, it was determined that an authenticated user could craft requests via a number of templated text fields in the product that would allow arbitrary access to Python’s `os` package in the web application process in versions < 0.37.1. It was thus possible for an authenticated user to list and access files, environment variables, and process information. Additionally it was possible to set environment variables for the current process, create and update files in folders writable by the web process, and execute arbitrary programs accessible by the web process. All other operations available to the `os` package in Python were also available, even if not explicitly enumerated in this CVE.

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Assigner

apache CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard B 76/100 over 1088 records in the last 180 days details

References

3 references

URL	Tags
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https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r4fc7115f6e6…	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r0e35c7c5672…	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
n/a	Apache Superset	Affected: Apache Superset < 0.37.1

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