Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component ('Injection') Affecting apache-superset package, versions [,1.5.3)[2.0.0,2.0.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.08% (37th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-APACHESUPERSET-3244381
  • published22 Jan 2023
  • disclosed16 Jan 2023
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 16 Jan 2023

CVE-2022-43720  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-74  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade apache-superset to version 1.5.3, 2.0.1 or higher.

Overview

apache-superset is a modern, enterprise-ready business intelligence web application.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component ('Injection') due to improper escape of HTML characters, which allows creating a record with specific HTML tags, that will trigger the exploitation via the toast message displayed when the user deletes the crafted CSS template record.

NOTE: Exploiting this vulnerability is possible by an authenticated attacker with write CSS template permissions.

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