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Patches have been released to address two new security vulnerabilities in  Apache Superset  that could be exploited by an attacker to gain remote code execution on affected systems. The update (version 2.1.1) plugs  CVE-2023-39265  and  CVE-2023-37941 , which make it possible to conduct nefarious actions once a bad actor is able to gain control of Superset's metadata database. Outside of these weaknesses, the latest version of Superset also remediates a separate improper REST API permission issue ( CVE-2023-36388 ) that allows for low-privilege users to carry out server-side request forgery ( SSRF ) attacks. "Superset by design allows privileged users to connect to arbitrary databases and execute arbitrary SQL queries against those databases using the powerful SQLLab interface," Horizon3.ai's Naveen Sunkavally said in a technical write-up. "If Superset can be tricked into connecting to its own metadata database, an attacker can directly read or write a...

An unknown threat actor has been observed weaponizing high-severity security flaws in the MinIO high-performance object storage system to achieve unauthorized code execution on affected servers. Cybersecurity and incident response firm Security Joes said the intrusion leveraged a publicly available exploit chain to backdoor the MinIO instance. The comprises  CVE-2023-28432  (CVSS score: 7.5) and  CVE-2023-28434  (CVSS score: 8.8), the former of which was added to the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency's (CISA) Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog on April 21, 2023. The two vulnerabilities "possess the potential to expose sensitive information present within the compromised installation and facilitate remote code execution (RCE) on the host where the MinIO application is operational," Security Joes said in a report shared with The Hacker News. In the attack chain investigated by the company, the flaws are said to have be...