Oozie local privilege escalation

published 2021-03-09 5y ago modified 2026-06-17 4mo ago also EUVD-2020-23125

cvss: 4.7; version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.4%; EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 37%
public exploits: 0; none known

There is a race condition in OozieSharelibCLI in Apache Oozie before version 5.2.1 which allows a malicious attacker to replace the files in Oozie's sharelib during it's creation.

Patch / fix

fixed in 1

Apache Software Foundation Apache Oozie 5.2.1

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Exploit prediction

0.43% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 37% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.1	4.7	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
NVD	2.0	1.9	AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected products

Apache Software Foundation Apache Oozie

Classification

Weakness

CWE-377 DEPRECATED: Insecure Temporary File
CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization

References

lists.apache.org /thread.html/r8688debdb8b586aab3e53dee2d675fc9212de0ec627a8d3cd43b5ab5%40%3Cuser.oozie.apache.org%3E
mailing-list, vendor-advisory
openwall.com /lists/oss-security/2021/03/09/2
mailing-list, third-party-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2020-35451
NVD CVE-2020-35451

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