CVE-2020-11978 (GCVE-0-2020-11978)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-07-16 00:00
Modified
2025-10-21 23:35
Severity ?
8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • Remote Code Execution
Summary
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.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Apache Software Foundation Apache Airflow Version: 1.10.10 and below
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CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability
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Date added: 2022-01-18

Due date: 2022-07-18

Required action: Apply updates per vendor instructions.

Used in ransomware: Unknown

Notes: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-11978

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