CVE-2020-11978
KEVHIGH 8.8EPSS 99.2%
An issue was found in Apache Airflow versions 1.10.10 and below. A remote code/command injection vulnerability was discovered in one of the example DAGs shipped with Airflow which would allow any authenticated user to run arbitrary commands as the user running airflow worker/scheduler (depending on the executor in use). If you already have examples disabled by setting load_examples=False in the config then you are not vulnerable.
- CVSS v4.0
- 8.7 HIGH
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:A - CVSS v3.1
- 8.8 HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - CVSS v3.1
- 8.8 HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - CVSS v3.1
- 8.8 HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:H - CVSS v2.0
- 6.5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P - EPSS
- 99.19% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 100th percentile
- CISA KEV
- added 2022-01-18
- Nuclei
- high · CWE-78
- Published
- 2020-07-16
- Updated
- 2025-10-21
Proof-of-concept exploits (4)
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/162908/Apache-Airflow-1.10.10-Remote-Code-Execution.…
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/174764/Apache-Airflow-1.10.10-Remote-Code-Execution.…
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