CVE-2021-42250
Published: 17 November 2021
Summary
CVE-2021-42250 is a medium-severity Improper Output Neutralization for Logs (CWE-117) vulnerability in Apache Superset. Its CVSS base score is 6.5 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked in the top 38.4% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2021-0024
Vulnerability details
Improper output neutralization for Logs. A specific Apache Superset HTTP endpoint allowed for an authenticated user to forge log entries or inject malicious content into logs.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Validating that output matches expected content directly mitigates failures to properly encode or escape data for its destination context.
Policy and procedures require sanitization and neutralization when generating audit logs to avoid injection issues.