CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-11978

8.8 HIGH Known exploited Published 2020-07-17 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability

Apache Airflow Command Injection — Apache Airflow

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

Added to KEV
2022-01-18
Remediation due
2022-07-18
Ransomware use
Unknown
Required action
Apply updates per vendor instructions.
Notes
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-11978
Status
Analyzed
Published
2020-07-17
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.5 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-78

Description

An issue was found in Apache Airflow versions 1.10.10 and below. 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.

Affected configurations

• apache airflow (< 1.10.11)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

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References