VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2020-11978

unknown KEV
Published 2020-07-27 · Modified 2022-01-18
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CVSS v3
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CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
2.5

Description

A remote code/command injection vulnerability was discovered in one of the example DAGs shipped with Airflow.

CISA KEV

Vendor
Apache
Product
Airflow
Due date
2022-07-18

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
99%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-49927 webapps multiple
Pepe Berba · 2021-06-02

Apache Airflow 1.10.10 - 'Example Dag' Remote Code Execution

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Metasploit modules

exploit_linux/http/apache_airflow_dag_rce rank 600
Apache Airflow 1.10.10 - Example DAG Remote Code Execution
Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Package impact
EcosystemPackageVulnerableFixed
python PyPIapache-airflow<1.10.11rc11.10.11rc1

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.