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FKIE_CVE-2018-8021

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2018-11-07 14:29 - Updated: 2026-06-17 02:04

Severity

9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Summary

Versions of Superset prior to 0.23 used an unsafe load method from the pickle library to deserialize data leading to possible remote code execution. Note Superset 0.23 was released prior to any Superset release under the Apache Software Foundation.

References

URL	Tags
security@apache.org	https://github.com/apache/incubator-superset/pull/4243	Patch, Third Party Advisory
security@apache.org	https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45933/	Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://github.com/apache/incubator-superset/pull/4243	Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45933/	Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	apache	superset	*

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CVE-2018-8021 (GCVE-0-2018-8021)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-11-07 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 06:46

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

apache CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard B 76/100 over 1076 records in the last 180 days details

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45933/	exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB
https://github.com/apache/incubator-superset/pull/4243	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
unspecified	Superset	Affected: prior to 0.23

Date Public

2018-11-06 00:00

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Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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