🛡️ CVE-2024-31868 — zeppelin

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality low, integrity low, availability none.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

• Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
• Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
• Privileges required: None — an unauthenticated stranger can try it.
• User interaction: Required — someone has to click, open or visit something.
• Scope: Changed — a successful attack reaches components beyond the vulnerable one.
• Confidentiality impact: Low — limited, and the attacker does not choose what is affected.
• Integrity impact: Low — limited, and the attacker does not choose what is affected.
• Availability impact: None.

Weakness class

CVE-2024-31868 is classified as CWE-116: Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output. Output is emitted without encoding it for the context it lands in, so data is interpreted as markup or code.

Affected software

CVE-2024-31868 is recorded against 2 packages.

• org.apache.zeppelin:zeppelin-interpreter (from 0.8.2 up to 0.11.1)
• zeppelin (from 0.8.2 up to 0.11.1)

Timeline and source

Published on 9 April 2024 and last revised on 3 October 2024. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
lists.apache.org (Web)
www.openwall.com (Web)

Other advisories for this package

org.apache.zeppelin:zeppelin-interpreter has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

• CVE-2024-41169 (8.0 High, published 12 Jul 2025)
• CVE-2024-31866 (9.5 Critical, published 9 Apr 2024)

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-116: Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output) in other software:

• CVE-2026-54133 (9.5 Critical, published 18 Aug 2026)
• CVE-2026-66486 (published 10 Aug 2026)
• CVE-2026-70609 (published 5 Aug 2026)
• CVE-2026-54364 (6.5 Medium, published 30 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2026-50642 (published 29 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2026-54705 (6.3 Medium, published 29 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2026-64647 (5.4 Medium, published 27 Jul 2026)
• GHSA-hc76-7mpc-qjqh (published 24 Jul 2026)

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