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critical 9.8

CVE-2018-8021 in the critical feed json

Deserialization of Untrusted Data in superset

published 8y ago modified 4mo ago also GHSA-vxp9-wv2f-wqmw , PYSEC-2018-74 , EUVD-2018-0137

cvss
9.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
53.4%
EPSS 53.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 98%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Versions of Superset prior to 0.23 used an unsafe load method from the pickle library to deserialize data leading to possible remote code execution. Note Superset 0.23 was released prior to any Superset release under the Apache Software Foundation.

Patch / fix

  • pypi superset 0.23, 0.23.0
  • apache superset 0.23

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Timeline

  1. Published
  2. First public exploit (EDB-45933)

Exploit prediction

53.41% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 98% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-45933 Apache Superset < 0.23 - Remote Code Execution webapps, 2018-12-03

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
GitHub 3.0 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
pypi superset
<0.23
<0.23.0
0.23
0.23.0

Affected products

  • unspecified Superset

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-502 Deserialization of Untrusted Data

References

Sources

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