CVE-2020-13926: Apache Kylin

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

  • Apache Kylin: from 2.0.0, before 3.1.0 (fixed in 3.1.0)

Published 2020-07-14. Last modified 2026-06-17.