Apache Kylin prior to 4.0.2 allows command injection when the configuration overwrites function overwrites system parameters

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

• apache kylin2.0.0 and later · before 2.6.6
• apache kylin3.0.0 and later · up to 3.1.2 inclusive
• apache kylin4.0.0 and later · up to 4.0.1 inclusive

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (apache). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

• Apache Software Foundation Apache Kylin

  • Apache Kylin 2 and later · before 2.6.6affected
  • Apache Kylin 3 and later · up to and including 3.1.2affected
  • Apache Kylin 4 and later · up to and including 4.0.1affected

Package-level exposure

OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

• CVE-2020-1956Apache Kylin 2.3.0, and releases up to 2.6.5 and 3.0.1 has some restful apis which will concatenate os command with the user input string, aKEV
  94Now
• CVE-2021-45456Apache kylin checks the legitimacy of the project before executing some commands with the project name passed in by the user.
  66This week
• CVE-2022-43396Apache Kylin: Command injection by Useless configuration
  52Plan
• CVE-2020-13925Similar to CVE-2020-1956, Kylin has one more restful API which concatenates the API inputs into OS commands and then executes them on the se
  45Plan
• CVE-2020-13937Apache Kylin 2.0.0, 2.1.0, 2.2.0, 2.3.0, 2.3.1, 2.3.2, 2.4.0, 2.4.1, 2.5.0, 2.5.1, 2.5.2, 2.6.0, 2.6.1, 2.6.2, 2.6.3, 2.6.4, 2.6.5, 2.6.6, 3
  44Plan
• CVE-2026-62392Apache Kylin: OS Command Injection via Async Query API
  40Plan

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Root cause

User input is inserted as text into a shell command. The shell may interpret special characters in the input as part of the command.

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

1const host = req.body.host;2exec("ping -c 1 " + host, onResult);

1const host = req.body.host;2if (!/^[a-z0-9.-]{1,253}$/i.test(host)) return res.sendStatus(400);3execFile("ping", ["-c", "1", host], onResult);

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.