CVE-2020-13926 SQL Injection in Kylin

What is CVE-2020-13926?

CVE-2020-13926 is a critical vulnerability in Apache Kylin, published on 14 Jul 2020.

Official description

Kylin concatenates and executes a Hive SQL in Hive CLI or beeline when building a new segment; some part of the HQL is from system configurations, while the configuration can be overwritten by certain rest api, which makes SQL injection attack is possible. Users of all previous versions after 2.0 should upgrade to 3.1.0.

Weakness: CWE-89

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-13926?

2 open source packages ship an affected version, including org.apache.kylin:kylin-server-base. It affects 1 product.

Products include Apache Kylin.

How do I fix CVE-2020-13926?

Upgrade org.apache.kylin:kylin-server-base to 3.1.0 or later.

Is CVE-2020-13926 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-13926 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Apache Kylin

• CVE-2020-1956 Apache Kylin OS Command Injection Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2026-62390 Apache Kylin: SQL Injection Vulnerability in Catalog Cache Refresh API Critical 9.8
• CVE-2022-44621 Apache Kylin: Command injection by Diagnosis Controller Critical 9.8
• CVE-2022-24697 Apache Kylin vulnerable to remote code execution Critical 9.8
• CVE-2021-31522 Apache Kylin unsafe class loading Critical 9.8

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-hx5g-8hq2-8x4w.