Critical severity · published Nov 7, 2018
CVE-2018-8021
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
9.8
CVSS
53.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)53.4% · higher than 99% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
SU
Superset · Apache
before 0.23 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-8021
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-8021
Patch
https://github.com/apache/incubator-superset/pull/4243
Exploit
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45933/
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