CVE-2020-13952

Description

In the course of work on the open source project it was discovered that authenticated users running queries against Hive and Presto database engines could access information via a number of templated fields including the contents of query description metadata database, the hashed version of the authenticated users’ password, and access to connection information including the plaintext password for the current connection. It would also be possible to run arbitrary methods on the database connection object for the Presto or Hive connection, allowing the user to bypass security controls internal to Superset. This vulnerability is present in every Apache Superset version < 0.37.2.

How to fix CVE-2020-13952

To remediate CVE-2020-13952, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.

• —upgrade to 0.37.2 or later
• —upgrade to 0.37.2 or later
• —upgrade to 0.37.2 or later

Is CVE-2020-13952 being exploited?

Low — EPSS is 0.1%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.

Affected packages (3)

• from 0, < 0.37.2
• from 0, < 0.37.2
• from 0, < 0.37.2

CVSS scores

References (5)

• ADVISORYgithub.com/advisories/GHSA-77pw-c3j2-5fc8
• ADVISORYnvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-13952
• PATCHgithub.com/apache/superset
• WEBgithub.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/apache-superset/PYSEC-2020-223.yaml