CVE-2020-11978

Advisory

Apache-airflow 1.10.11rc1 includes a fix for CVE-2020-11978: 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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Resources

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-11978
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-rvmq-4x66-q7j3
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r7255cf0be3566f23a768e2a04b40fb09e52fcd1872695428ba9afe91%40%3C
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-11978
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r7255cf0be3566f23a768e2a04b40fb09e52fcd1872695428ba9afe91%40%3Cusers.airflow.apache.org%3E
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/162908/Apache-Airflow-1.10.10-Remote-Code-Execution.html
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/174764/Apache-Airflow-1.10.10-Remote-Code-Execution.html