Critical

Apache Kylin vulnerable to remote code execution

  • Disclosed: 06.07.2023
  • Updated: 11.10.2026 12:21

Kylin's cube designer function has a command injection vulnerability when overwriting system parameters in the configuration overwrites menu. RCE can be implemented by closing the single quotation marks around the parameter value of “-- conf=” to inject any operating system command into the command line parameters. This vulnerability affects Kylin 2 version 2.6.5 and earlier, Kylin 3 version 3.1.2 and earlier, and Kylin 4 version 4.0.1 and earlier.

Affected software

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PlatformPackageVulnerable versionsFixed in
Java / Kotlin (Maven) org.apache.kylin:kylin-core-common < 4.0.2 4.0.2
Java / Kotlin (Maven) org.apache.kylin:kylin-server-base < 4.0.2 4.0.2
Java / Kotlin (Maven) org.apache.kylin:kylin-spark-project < 4.0.2 4.0.2

References

CVSS score 9.8/10
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-77, CWE-78
Platform
Java / Kotlin (Maven)
Package
org.apache.kylin:kylin-core-common, org.apache.kylin:kylin-server-base, org.apache.kylin:kylin-spark-project
Disclosed
06.07.2023
Updated
11.10.2026 12:21

Sources and licenses

OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - GHSA-ppxx-m926-g569 - CC BY 4.0

Vulnerability history: org.apache.kylin:kylin-spark-project

All published vulnerabilities of this package (Java / Kotlin (Maven)), newest first. Shows whether this is a one-off slip or a package that needs watching.

This is the only known vulnerability of this package.

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