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title: "Security digest: April 5, 2023"
url: https://erroneo.us/security/2023-04-05/
description: "April 5, 2023 vulnerability digest: 1 brief (Apache Superset CVE-2023-27524: Default…). What to patch and who can relax."
type: security-digest-day
section: "Security Digest"
date_published: 2023-04-05
date_modified: 2026-10-23
publisher: erroneo.us
author: erroneo.us Security Desk
license: All rights reserved. Quote with attribution and a link.
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# Security digest: April 5, 2023

1 editorial brief.

## Take stock

- Check exposure: Apache Superset CVE-2023-27524: Default SECRET_KEY Takeover . Anyone running Apache Superset whose SECRET_KEY is, or ever was, a published default, especially Docker Compose or Helm installs and any instance reachable from the internet.
- None of it touches your stack? Then there is nothing to do today. That is a result, not a failure to read carefully.

## Editorial briefs

- **Check exposure** [Apache Superset CVE-2023-27524: Default SECRET_KEY Takeover](https://erroneo.us/security/briefs/superset-cve-2023-27524-default-secret-key/index.md): Not a code bug but a shipped default; the version number alone does not prove you are safe, so confirm every Superset instance uses its own random SECRET_KEY, and if one ran on a default key while reachable, treat it and its database credentials as compromised.

## Known exploited (CISA KEV)

None.

## Critical advisories

None.

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