Apache Kylin up to 2.6.5/3.1.2/4.0.1 Cube Designer os command injection

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Apache Kylin up to 2.6.5/3.1.2/4.0.1. It has been classified as critical. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component Cube Designer. This manipulation causes os command injection. This vulnerability is registered as CVE-2022-24697. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. No exploit is available.

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A vulnerability has been found in Apache Kylin up to 2.6.5/3.1.2/4.0.1 and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code block of the component Cube Designer. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a os command injection vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-78. The product constructs all or part of an OS command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended OS command when it is sent to a downstream component. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

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.

The weakness was published 10/13/2022. It is possible to read the advisory at lists.apache.org. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2022-24697 since 02/09/2022. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 05/16/2025). The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1202 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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Vendor

• Apache

Name

• Kylin

Version

• 2.6.0
• 2.6.1
• 2.6.2
• 2.6.3
• 2.6.4
• 2.6.5
• 3.1.0
• 3.1.1
• 3.1.2
• 4.0.0
• 4.0.1

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• open-source

Website

• Vendor: https://www.apache.org/

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