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


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

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

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-APACHEAIRFLOW-570291
  • published 14 Jul 2020
  • disclosed 24 May 2020
  • credit Snyk Security Team

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.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
8 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    High
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    High
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Changed
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    High
  • Availability (A)
    High
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NVD

9.8 critical