Critical severity · published Jul 17, 2020
CVE-2020-11981
An issue was found in Apache Airflow versions 1.10.10 and below
9.8
CVSS
36.8%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
An issue was found in Apache Airflow versions 1.10.10 and below. When using CeleryExecutor, if an attacker can connect to the broker (Redis, RabbitMQ) directly, it is possible to inject commands, resulting in the celery worker running arbitrary commands.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)36.8% · higher than 98% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
AI
Airflow · Apache
through 1.10.10 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-11981
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-11981
Mailing List
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r7255cf0be3566f23a768e2a04b40fb09e52fcd1872695428ba9afe91%40%3Cusers.airflow.apache.org%3E
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