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Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

Published

2024-03-06 10:57

Modified

2026-09-08 08:34

Summary

Apache Airflow <2.4.0 has an RCE in a bash example

Details

A vulnerability in Example Dags of Apache Airflow allows an attacker with UI access who can trigger DAGs, to execute arbitrary commands via manually provided run_id parameter. This issue affects Apache Airflow Apache Airflow versions prior to 2.4.0.

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CVE-2022-40127 (GCVE-0-2022-40127)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-11-14 00:00 – Updated: 2025-04-30 18:58

Title

Apache Airflow <2.4.0 has an RCE in a bash example

Summary

Severity

8.8 (High)


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

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-04-30 18:58 UTC

CWE

CWE-94 - Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')

Assigner

apache mitre root

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/25960
https://lists.apache.org/thread/cf132hgm6jvzvsbps…
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/11/14/2	mailing-list

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
Apache Software Foundation	Apache Airflow	Affected: Apache Airflow , < 2.4.0 (custom)

Credits

Apache Airflow PMC would like to thank L3yx of Syclover Security Team.

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