CVE-2020-11978
HIGH8.8⚠ KEVEPSS 94.3%Remote code execution (RCE) in Apache Airflow
Published: 7/27/2020Modified: 10/22/2025Added to CISA KEV: 1/18/2022
Description
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.
Affected packages (3)
- Bitnami/airflowfrom 0, < 1.10.11
- PyPI/apache-airflowfrom 0, < 1.10.11rc1
- PyPI/apache-airflowfrom 0, < 1.10.11rc1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 4.0 | — | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:A |
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:H |
References (11)
- ADVISORYhttps://github.com/advisories/GHSA-rvmq-4x66-q7j3
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-11978
- PATCHhttps://github.com/apache/airflow
- WEBhttp://packetstormsecurity.com/files/162908/Apache-Airflow-1.10.10-Remote-Code-Execution.html
- WEBhttp://packetstormsecurity.com/files/174764/Apache-Airflow-1.10.10-Remote-Code-Execution.html
- WEBhttps://github.com/apache/airflow/commit/2fa51576e1283f5732e38fada686fd248d9c3a1e
- WEBhttps://github.com/apache/airflow/commit/4d8599e8b0520ff4226fbad72f724afae50fdd08
- WEBhttps://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/9143
- WEBhttps://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/apache-airflow/PYSEC-2020-14.yaml
- WEBhttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r7255cf0be3566f23a768e2a04b40fb09e52fcd1872695428ba9afe91%40%3Cusers.airflow.apache.org%3E
- WEBhttps://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2020-11978