Privilege Escalation Affecting apache-airflow package, versions [,2.6.0)


Severity

0.0
medium
0
10

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.63% (80th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-APACHEAIRFLOW-5500433
  • published 9 May 2023
  • disclosed 8 May 2023
  • credit ksw9722@naver.com

How to fix?

Upgrade apache-airflow to version 2.6.0 or higher.

Overview

apache-airflow is a platform to programmatically author, schedule, and monitor workflows.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Privilege Escalation due to missing permissions validation in the File Task Handler. An attacker can use airflow logs to trigger this vulnerability.

Note: Default permissions are set to group-writeable allowing for impersonation use case.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

4.3 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    Low
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    Low
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    None
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NVD

9.8 critical