CVE-2020-9479

MEDIUM 5.5CVE-2020-9479 · Published 01/03/2021 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2020-9479 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.5) vulnerability affecting asterixdb (apache).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 2.0%, higher than 80.6% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 0.9.5 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
asterixdb apache	`< 0.9.5`	`0.9.5`

Description

When loading a UDF, a specially crafted zip file could allow files to be placed outside of the UDF deployment directory. This issue affected Apache AsterixDB unreleased builds between commits 580b81aa5e8888b8e1b0620521a1c9680e54df73 and 28c0ee84f1387ab5d0659e9e822f4e3923ddc22d. Note: this CVE may be REJECTed as the issue did not affect any released versions of Apache AsterixDB

References

lists.apache.org/thread.html/r4cc9cc9c54573babf821c31d5d410fb260d1cd416dc1b225d587be9b%40%3Cdev.asterixdb.apache.org%3E
openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/08/08/2 · Mailing List

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