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CVE-2020-1956: Apache Kylin OS Command Injection Vulnerability
- Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: yes — in CISA KEV since 2022-03-25
- EPSS: 97.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: yes
- Published: 2020-05-22 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-78
Description
Apache Kylin 2.3.0, and releases up to 2.6.5 and 3.0.1 has some restful apis which will concatenate os command with the user input string, a user is likely to be able to execute any os command without any protection or validation.
Affected products
- Apache Software Foundation Apache Kylin: from 2.3.0 through 2.3.2; from 2.5.0 through 2.5.2; from 2.6.0 through 2.6.5; 2.4.0, 2.4.1, 3.0.0, 3.0.0-alpha, 3.0.0-alpha2, 3.0.0-beta (+1)
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/07/14/1
- https://community.sonarsource.com/t/apache-kylin-3-0-1-command-injection-vulnerability/25706
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r021baf9d8d4ae41e8c8332c167c4fa96c91b5086563d9be55d2d7acf%40%3Ccommits.kylin.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r1332ef34cf8e2c0589cf44ad269fb1fb4c06addec6297f0320f5111d%40%3Cuser.kylin.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r250a867961cfd6e0506240a9c7eaee782d84c6ab0091c7c4bc45f3eb%40%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r250a867961cfd6e0506240a9c7eaee782d84c6ab0091c7c4bc45f3eb%40%3Cdev.kylin.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r250a867961cfd6e0506240a9c7eaee782d84c6ab0091c7c4bc45f3eb%40%3Cuser.kylin.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r61666760d8a4e8764b2d5fe158d8a48b569414480fbfadede574cdc0%40%3Ccommits.kylin.apache.org%3E
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/07/14/1
- https://community.sonarsource.com/t/apache-kylin-3-0-1-command-injection-vulnerability/25706
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r021baf9d8d4ae41e8c8332c167c4fa96c91b5086563d9be55d2d7acf%40%3Ccommits.kylin.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r1332ef34cf8e2c0589cf44ad269fb1fb4c06addec6297f0320f5111d%40%3Cuser.kylin.apache.org%3E
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