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CVE-2023-36543 (GCVE-0-2023-36543)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-07-12 09:17 – Updated: 2024-10-04 13:47
VLAI
Title
Apache Airflow: ReDoS via dags function
Summary
Apache Airflow, versions before 2.6.3, has a vulnerability where an authenticated user can use crafted input to make the current request hang. It is recommended to upgrade to a version that is not affected
Severity
No CVSS data available.
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-10-04 13:45 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-1333 - Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Apache Software Foundation Apache Airflow Affected: 0 , < 2.6.3 (semver)
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Credits
National Cyber Security VietNam (NCS VietNam) hungtd
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