CVE-2023-42504 Apache Superset: Lack of rate limiting allows for possible denial of service

What is CVE-2023-42504?

CVE-2023-42504 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Apache Superset, published on 28 Nov 2023. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

Official description

An authenticated malicious user could initiate multiple concurrent requests, each requesting multiple dashboard exports, leading to a possible denial of service.

This issue affects Apache Superset: before 3.0.0

Weakness: CWE-770

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-42504?

4 open source packages ship an affected version, including apache-superset and superset. It affects 1 product.

Products include Apache Superset.

How do I fix CVE-2023-42504?

Upgrade apache-superset to 3.0.0 or later.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2023-42504 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-42504 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Apache Superset

• CVE-2023-27524 Apache Superset Insecure Default Initialization of Resource Exploited High 8.9
• CVE-2022-27479 SQL injection vulnerability in chart data API Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-8021 Deserialization of Untrusted Data in superset Critical 9.8
• CVE-2023-49657 Apache Superset: Stored XSS in Dashboard Title and Chart Title Critical 9.6
• CVE-2022-43719 Apache Superset: Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) on accept, request access API High 8.8

All Apache Superset vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as BIT-superset-2023-42504, GHSA-3hp7-4qq4-v5c6, PYSEC-2026-1157.