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CVE-2020-11978Apache Airflow Command Injection
An issue was found in Apache Airflow versions 1.10.10 and below. A remote code/command injection vulnerability was discovered in one of the example DAGs shipped with Airflow which would allow any authenticated user to run arbitrary commands as the user running airflow worker/scheduler (depending on the executor in use). If you already have examples disabled by setting load_examples=False in the config then you are not vulnerable.
8.8 HIGHEPSS 99.18%⚡ Known Exploited (CISA KEV)NVD: Analyzed
Overview
Severity
| Score | Severity | Version | Vector String |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8.8 | HIGH | 3.1NVD | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| 6.5 | MEDIUM | 2.0NVD | AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P |
CISA required action
⚡ Known exploited · remediation due Jul 18, 2022
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Details
- CVE ID
- CVE-2020-11978
- Status
- Analyzed
- Assigner (CNA)
- apache
- Published
- Jul 17, 2020
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17 02:51 UTC
- Weaknesses
Affected Products
As published by the CNA in the CVE record.
Apache Software FoundationApache Airflow1 version range
- 1.10.10 and below
References
- packetstormsecurity.com http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/162908/Apache-Airflow-1.10.10-Remote-Code-Execution.html
- packetstormsecurity.com http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/174764/Apache-Airflow-1.10.10-Remote-Code-Execution.html
- lists.apache.org https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r7255cf0be3566f23a768e2a04b40fb09e52fcd1872695428ba9afe91%40%3Cusers.airflow.apache.org%3E
- cisa.gov https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2020-11978