CVE-2022-38170
MEDIUM4.7EPSS 0.27%Overly permissive umask for daemons
Published: 9/3/2022Modified: 5/20/2025
Description
In Apache Airflow prior to 2.3.4, an insecure umask was configured for numerous Airflow components when running with the `--daemon` flag which could result in a race condition giving world-writable files in the Airflow home directory and allowing local users to expose arbitrary file contents via the webserver.
Affected packages (3)
- Bitnami/airflowfrom 0, < 2.3.4
- PyPI/apache-airflowfrom 0, < 2.3.4
- PyPI/apache-airflowfrom 0, < 2.3.4
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 4.0 | — | CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N |
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM4.7 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
References (11)
- ADVISORYhttps://github.com/advisories/GHSA-q8h9-pqcx-59hw
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-38170
- PATCHhttps://github.com/apache/airflow
- WEBhttps://github.com/apache/airflow/commit/b6a2cd1aa34f69a36ea127e4f7f5ba87f4aca420
- WEBhttps://github.com/apache/airflow/commit/bf01d10cd348e679916034de1befb79ec6e46ff8
- WEBhttps://github.com/apache/airflow/commit/c14ea8f0f34944d2ecfa9021d167602e8b2b8b90
- WEBhttps://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/apache-airflow/PYSEC-2022-261.yaml
- WEBhttps://lists.apache.org/thread/zn8mbbb1j2od5nc9zhrvb7rpsrg1vvzv
- WEBhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/09/02/12
- WEBhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/09/02/3
- WEBhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/09/21/2