CVE-2020-13929 Notebook permissions bypass

What is CVE-2020-13929?

CVE-2020-13929 is a high-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in Apache Zeppelin, published on 2 Sep 2021. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official 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.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-13929?

2 open source packages ship an affected version, including org.apache.zeppelin:zeppelin. It affects 1 product.

Products include Apache Zeppelin.

How do I fix CVE-2020-13929?

Upgrade org.apache.zeppelin:zeppelin to 0.10.0 or later.

Upgrade, and rotate credentials and sessions that may have been exposed. More about Authentication bypass.

Is CVE-2020-13929 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-13929 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Apache Zeppelin

• CVE-2024-31864 Apache Zeppelin: Remote code execution by adding malicious JDBC connection string Critical 9.8
• CVE-2024-31866 Apache Zeppelin: Interpreter download command does not escape malicious code injection Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-10095 bash command injection in spark interpreter Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-1317 Improper Authentication in Apache Zeppelin High 8.8
• CVE-2017-12619 Session Fixation in Apache Zeppelin High 8.1

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-87p2-cvhq-q4mv.