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 Kylin 2 version 2.6.5 and earlier, Kylin 3 version 3.1.2 and earlier, and Kylin 4 version 4.0.1 and earlier.

Kylin concatenates and executes a Hive SQL in Hive CLI or beeline when building a new segment; some part of the HQL is from system configurations, while the configuration can be overwritten by certain rest api, which makes SQL injection attack is possible. Users of all previous versions after 2.0 should upgrade to 3.1.0.

Kylin can receive user input and load any class through Class.forName(...). This issue affects Apache Kylin 2 version 2.6.6 and prior versions; Apache Kylin 3 version 3.1.2 and prior versions; Apache Kylin 4 version 4.0.0 and prior versions.