Deserialization of Untrusted Data Affecting apache-superset package, versions [1.5.0,2.1.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of concept
EPSS
0.44% (76th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-APACHESUPERSET-5889623
  • published8 Sept 2023
  • disclosed6 Sept 2023
  • creditDinis Cruz, Naveen Sunkavally

Introduced: 6 Sep 2023

CVE-2023-37941  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-502  (opens in a new tab)

How 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.

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