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Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

Published

2024-03-06 11:01

Modified

2025-10-22 09:08

Summary

Details

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.

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  "published": "2024-03-06T11:01:37.264Z",
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CVE-2020-11978 (GCVE-0-2020-11978)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-07-16 00:00 – Updated: 2025-10-21 23:35

Summary

Severity ?

8.8 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE

Remote Code Execution

Assigner

apache

References

URL

Tags

	https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r7255cf0be35…
	http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/162908/Apach…
	http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/174764/Apach…

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	Apache Software Foundation	Apache Airflow	Affected: 1.10.10 and below

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Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

CVE-2020-11978 (GCVE-0-2020-11978)

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