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Fencer Vulns
medium 4.7

CVE-2020-35451 json

Oozie local privilege escalation

published 2021-03-09 5 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2020-23125

cvss
4.7
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 37%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

There is a race condition in OozieSharelibCLI in Apache Oozie before version 5.2.1 which allows a malicious attacker to replace the files in Oozie's sharelib during it's creation.

Patch / fix

  • Apache Software Foundation Apache Oozie 5.2.1

Exploit prediction

0.43% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 37% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 4.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
NVD 2.0 1.9 AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected products

  • Apache Software Foundation Apache Oozie

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-377 DEPRECATED: Insecure Temporary File
  • CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization

References

Sources

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