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🛡️ CVE-2024-52279 — zeppelin

🟡 CVSS 5.3 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-20 NVD
5.3
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Apache Zeppelin: Arbitrary file read by adding malicious JDBC connection string

Improper Input Validation vulnerability in Apache Zeppelin. The fix for JDBC URL validation in CVE-2024-31864 did not account for URL encoded input.

This issue affects Apache Zeppelin: from 0.11.1 before 0.12.0.

Users are recommended to upgrade to version 0.12.0, which fixes the issue.

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. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity low, availability none.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/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: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: None.
  • Integrity impact: Low — limited, and the attacker does not choose what is affected.
  • Availability impact: None.

Weakness class

CVE-2024-52279 is classified as CWE-20: Improper Input Validation. The application accepts input without checking that it has the expected form, so malformed values reach code that assumes they are well formed.

Affected software

CVE-2024-52279 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • org.apache.zeppelin:zeppelin-jdbc (from 0.11.1 up to 0.12.0)
  • zeppelin (from 0.11.1 up to 0.12.0)

Timeline and source

Published on 3 August 2025 and last revised on 5 November 2025. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

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

Other advisories for this package

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

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-20: Improper Input Validation) in other software:

Details

Severity Medium
CVSS Score 5.3
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CWE CWE-20
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2025-08-03
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2025-11-05
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
org.apache.zeppelin:zeppelin-jdbc 0.11.1 0.12.0
zeppelin 0.11.1 0.12.0

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