Command Injection Affecting apache-airflow package, versions [0,1.10.11)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of concept
EPSS
92.58% (100th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-APACHEAIRFLOW-570291
  • published14 Jul 2020
  • disclosed24 May 2020
  • creditSnyk Security Team

Introduced: 24 May 2020

CVE-2020-11981  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-78  (opens in a new tab)
First added by Snyk

How to fix?

Upgrade apache-airflow to version 1.10.11 or higher.

Overview

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

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Command Injection. The celery executor gets plain commands to execute from the message broker, without any sanitization. An attacker can inject arbitrary commands into the queue and therefore achieve command injection.

Note An attacker requires access to the message broker used to send messages to Celery workers in order to exploit this vulnerability.

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