CVE-2023-27524

What is affected

Vendor	Apache
Product	Superset
Weakness	CWE-1188

The vulnerability

Apache Superset contains an insecure default initialization of a resource vulnerability that allows an attacker to authenticate and access unauthorized resources on installations that have not altered the default configured SECRET_KEY according to installation instructions.

Required action

Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

US federal civilian agencies were required to act by 29 January 2024 under BOD 22-01. The deadline is a compliance date, not a measure of severity — it says nothing about how dangerous the flaw is to anyone else.

Where this comes from

Every field on this page is taken from the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, last synced 12 Nov 2026, 00:29. Nothing here is our own assessment. For the technical scoring, see the NVD record below.

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