CVE-2023-40610 (GCVE-0-2023-40610)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-11-27 10:22
Modified
2025-06-03 13:59
Severity ?
6.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-863 - Incorrect Authorization
Summary
Improper authorization check and possible privilege escalation on Apache Superset up to but excluding 2.1.2. Using the default examples database connection that allows access to both the examples schema and Apache Superset's metadata database, an attacker using a specially crafted CTE SQL statement could change data on the metadata database. This weakness could result on tampering with the authentication/authorization data.
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