CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-38540

9.8 CRITICAL Published 2021-09-09 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2021-09-09
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-269, CWE-306

Description

The variable import endpoint was not protected by authentication in Airflow >=2.0.0, <2.1.3. This allowed unauthenticated users to hit that endpoint to add/modify Airflow variables used in DAGs, potentially resulting in a denial of service, information disclosure or remote code execution. This issue affects Apache Airflow >=2.0.0, <2.1.3.

Affected configurations

• apache airflow (>= 2.0.0 < 2.1.3)

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management weakness
  • CWE-306 Missing Authentication for Critical Functionality weakness

References