CVE-2019-12417: A malicious admin user could edit the state of objects in the Airflow metadata database to execute arbitrary javascript on certain page views

Medium severity · published Oct 30, 2019

CVE-2019-12417

A malicious admin user could edit the state of objects in the Airflow metadata database to execute arbitrary javascript on certain page views

4.8

CVSS

1.3%

EPSS

On KEV

Description

A malicious admin user could edit the state of objects in the Airflow metadata database to execute arbitrary javascript on certain page views. This also presented a Local File Disclosure vulnerability to any file readable by the webserver process.

CVSS vector

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

Attack vector

Network

Complexity

Low

Privileges

High

User interaction

Required

Confidentiality

Low

Integrity

Low

Availability

None

Scope

Changed

Exploitation

Is it being used?

Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.3% · higher than 70% of CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet

CISA KEVNot listed

Ransomware campaign useNot known

Affected products

Which versions

Airflow · Apache

through 1.10.5 · source: NVD

Affected product

Airflow

Apache

All Airflow CVEs

References

NVD

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-12417

CVE.org

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-12417

lists.apache.org

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/f3aa5ff9c7cdb5424b6463c9013f6cf5db83d26c66ea77130cbbe1bc%40%3Cusers.airflow.apache.org%3E