CVE-2020-13929: Notebook permissions bypass

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2021-09-02 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

Authentication bypass vulnerability in Apache Zeppelin allows an attacker to bypass Zeppelin authentication mechanism to act as another user. This issue affects Apache Zeppelin Apache Zeppelin version 0.9.0 and prior versions.

Affected products

Apache Software Foundation Apache Zeppelin: through 0.9.0

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/09/02/2
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r768800925d6407a6a87ccae0ec98776b7bda50c0e3ed3d0130dad028%40%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r768800925d6407a6a87ccae0ec98776b7bda50c0e3ed3d0130dad028%40%3Cusers.zeppelin.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r768800925d6407a6a87ccae0ec98776b7bda50c0e3ed3d0130dad028%40%3Cusers.zeppelin.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r768800925d6407a6a87ccae0ec98776b7bda50c0e3ed3d0130dad028%40%3Cusers.zeppelin.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r768800925d6407a6a87ccae0ec98776b7bda50c0e3ed3d0130dad028%40%3Cusers.zeppelin.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r99529e175a7c1c9a26bd41a02802c8af7aa97319fe561874627eb999%40%3Cusers.zeppelin.apache.org%3E
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202311-04
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/09/02/2
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r768800925d6407a6a87ccae0ec98776b7bda50c0e3ed3d0130dad028%40%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r768800925d6407a6a87ccae0ec98776b7bda50c0e3ed3d0130dad028%40%3Cusers.zeppelin.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r768800925d6407a6a87ccae0ec98776b7bda50c0e3ed3d0130dad028%40%3Cusers.zeppelin.apache.org%3E

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