# CVE-2020-13925: Similar 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

- Also known as: GHSA-QWFW-GXX2-MMV2
- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 1 GitHub repo listed by PoC-in-GitHub
- Fixed in: 3.1.0
- Published: 2020-07-14 · Updated: 2024-08-04

## Affected

- n/a Apache Kylin: version range not reported
- org.apache.kylin:kylin-server-base (Maven): fixed in 3.1.0

## Description

Similar to CVE-2020-1956, Kylin has one more restful API which concatenates the API inputs into OS commands and then executes them on the server; while the reported API misses necessary input validation, which causes the hackers to have the possibility to execute OS command remotely. Users of all previous versions after 2.3 should upgrade to 3.1.0.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a Apache Kylin, org.apache.kylin:kylin-server-base, upgrade to a fixed version (3.1.0) per the references below.
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## References

- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r250a867961cfd6e0506240a9c7eaee782d84c6ab0091c7c4bc45f3eb%40%3Cuser.kylin.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r021baf9d8d4ae41e8c8332c167c4fa96c91b5086563d9be55d2d7acf%40%3Ccommits.kylin.apache.org%3E
- https://github.com/bit4woo/CVE-2020-13925

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