CVE-2022-24697: Apache Kylin: Command injection exists when the configuration overwrites function overwrites system parameters

[Xiaoxiang Yu <xxyu () apache org>]

Severity: important

Description:

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 the 
kylin which version is 4.0.1 and above.

Mitigation:

Users of Kylin 2.x & Kylin 3.x & 4.x should upgrade to 4.0.2 or apply patch https://github.com/apache/kylin/pull/1811 .

Credit:

Kylin Team would like to thanks Kai Zhao of ToTU Secruity Team.