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Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

Published

2024-03-06 10:58

Modified

2026-09-08 08:34

Summary

Apache Airflow: Creating DagRuns didn't respect Dag-level permissions in the Webserver

Details

In Apache Airflow prior to 2.2.0. This CVE applies to a specific case where a User who has "can_create" permissions on DAG Runs can create Dag Runs for dags that they don't have "edit" permissions for.

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    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Bitnami",
        "name": "airflow",
        "purl": "pkg:bitnami/airflow"
      },
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            {
              "introduced": "2.0.0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "2.2.0"
            }
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          "type": "SEMVER"
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      ],
      "severity": [
        {
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N",
          "type": "CVSS_V3"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2021-45230"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cpes": [
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    ],
    "severity": "Medium"
  },
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  "id": "BIT-airflow-2021-45230",
  "modified": "2026-09-08T08:34:36.952Z",
  "published": "2024-03-06T10:58:36.898Z",
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      "type": "ADVISORY",
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    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-45230"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.5.0",
  "summary": "Apache Airflow: Creating DagRuns didn\u0027t respect Dag-level permissions in the Webserver"
}

CVE-2021-45230 (GCVE-0-2021-45230)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-01-20 10:25 – Updated: 2024-08-04 04:39

Title

Apache Airflow: Creating DagRuns didn't respect Dag-level permissions in the Webserver

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Permission checks were limited.

Assigner

apache CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard B 76/100 over 933 records in the last 180 days details

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://lists.apache.org/thread/m778ojn0k595rwco4…	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
Apache Software Foundation	Apache Airflow	Affected: Apache Airflow 1.10 1.10.0 to 1.10.15 Affected: Apache Airflow 2 , < 2.2.0 (custom)

Credits

Apache Airflow PMC would like to thank Franco Cano Erazo for reporting this issue.

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