Deserialization of Untrusted Data Affecting apache-superset package, versions [1.5.0,2.1.1)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-APACHESUPERSET-5889623
- published 8 Sep 2023
- disclosed 6 Sep 2023
- credit Dinis Cruz, Naveen Sunkavally
Introduced: 6 Sep 2023
CVE-2023-37941 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade apache-superset to version 2.1.1 or higher.
Overview
apache-superset is a modern, enterprise-ready business intelligence web application.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Deserialization of Untrusted Data. If an attacker gains write access to the Apache Superset metadata database, they could persist a specifically crafted Python object that may lead to remote code execution on Superset's web backend.
Details
Serialization is a process of converting an object into a sequence of bytes which can be persisted to a disk or database or can be sent through streams. The reverse process of creating object from sequence of bytes is called deserialization. Serialization is commonly used for communication (sharing objects between multiple hosts) and persistence (store the object state in a file or a database). It is an integral part of popular protocols like Remote Method Invocation (RMI), Java Management Extension (JMX), Java Messaging System (JMS), Action Message Format (AMF), Java Server Faces (JSF) ViewState, etc.
Deserialization of untrusted data (CWE-502) is when the application deserializes untrusted data without sufficiently verifying that the resulting data will be valid, thus allowing the attacker to control the state or the flow of the execution.