CVE-2020-17511
LOW2.8EPSS 0.49%Apache Airflow logs passwords in plaintext
Published: 12/17/2020Modified: 4/3/2025
Description
In Airflow versions prior to 1.10.13, when creating a user using airflow CLI, the password gets logged in plain text in the Log table in Airflow Metadatase. Same happened when creating a Connection with a password field.
Affected packages (3)
- Bitnami/airflowfrom 0, < 1.10.13
- PyPI/apache-airflowfrom 0, < 1.10.13
- PyPI/apache-airflowfrom 0, < 1.10.13
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 4.0 | — | CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:A/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N |
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | LOW2.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N |
References (6)
- ADVISORYhttps://github.com/advisories/GHSA-cvcq-gmc3-q6m8
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-17511
- PATCHhttps://github.com/apache/airflow
- WEBhttps://github.com/apache/airflow/commit/4e32546faf227a6497ce8b282fff7450cae6f665
- WEBhttps://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/apache-airflow/PYSEC-2020-262.yaml
- WEBhttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ree782a29d927b96bf0b39fb92e2f1f09ea3112a985f7a08ce93765ac%40%3Cusers.airflow.apache.org%3E