Medium severity · published Aug 6, 2018
CVE-2017-12614
It was noticed an XSS in certain 404 pages that could be exploited to perform an XSS attack
6.1
CVSS
2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
It was noticed an XSS in certain 404 pages that could be exploited to perform an XSS attack. Chrome will detect this as a reflected XSS attempt and prevent the page from loading. Firefox and other browsers don't, and are vulnerable to this attack. Mitigation: The fix for this is to upgrade to Apache Airflow 1.9.0 or above.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)2.0% · higher than 81% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
AA
Apache Airflow · Apache Software Foundation
< 1.9.0 · source: vendor
AI
Airflow · Apache
before 1.9.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-12614
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-12614
lists.apache.org
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/2c72480c76619c5e7793f0d213c34082f0598eaa4d212172f068940f%40%3Cdev.airflow.apache.org%3E
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