CVE-2022-24697 Apache Kylin vulnerable to remote code execution

What is CVE-2022-24697?

CVE-2022-24697 is a critical command injection vulnerability in Apache Kylin, published on 13 Oct 2022. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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.

Weakness: CWE-78

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-24697?

6 open source packages ship an affected version, including org.apache.kylin:kylin-core-common, org.apache.kylin:kylin-server-base and org.apache.kylin:kylin-spark-project. It affects 1 product.

Products include Apache Kylin.

How do I fix CVE-2022-24697?

Upgrade org.apache.kylin:kylin-core-common to 4.0.2 or later.

Upgrade, and pass arguments to programs as a list instead of through a shell. More about Command injection.

Is CVE-2022-24697 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-24697 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-2021-31522 Apache Kylin unsafe class loading Critical 9.8
• CVE-2021-45456 Command injection Critical 9.8

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-ppxx-m926-g569.