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SCA: security update for apache-airflow (GHSA-3xxv-p78r-4fc6)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 409800

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - The "origin" parameter passed to some of the endpoints like '/trigger' was vulnerable to XSS exploit. This
 issue affects Apache Airflow versions <1.10.15 in 1.x series and affects 2.0.0 and 2.0.1 and 2.x series.
 This is the same as CVE-2020-13944 & CVE-2020-17515 but the implemented fix did not fix the issue
 completely. Update to Airflow 1.10.15 or 2.0.2. Please also update your Python version to the latest
 available PATCH releases of the installed MINOR versions, example update to Python 3.6.13 if you are on
 Python 3.6. (Those contain the fix for CVE-2021-23336 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-23336).
 (CVE-2021-28359)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3xxv-p78r-4fc6

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 409800

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.3

Percentile: 8.67

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-28359

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/18/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/2/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-28359

cwe: CWE-79