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Critical · 9.8 Public exploit CVE-2018-8021 EUVD-2018-0137GHSA-vxp9-wv2f-wqmwPYSEC-2018-74

Deserialization of Untrusted Data in superset

Published Nov 7, 2018 · Updated Aug 5, 2024 · Assigned by apache

Description

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
— Superset prior to 0.23 —

Public exploits

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Exploit-DB 1

GitHub 1 repository

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Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
PyPI superset < 0.23 0.23 GHSA-vxp9-wv2f-wqmw
PyPI superset < 0.23.0 0.23.0 PYSEC-2018-74

References