SCA: security update for apache-airflow (GHSA-8f57-wcmg-4jmh)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 412616

Description

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

- Apache Airflow, in versions prior to 2.8.0, contains a security vulnerability that allows an authenticated
user with limited access to some DAGs, to craft a request that could give the user write access to various
DAG resources for DAGs that the user had no access to, thus, enabling the user to clear DAGs they
shouldn't. This is a missing fix for CVE-2023-42792 in Apache Airflow 2.7.2 Users of Apache Airflow are
strongly advised to upgrade to version 2.8.0 or newer to mitigate the risk associated with this
vulnerability. (CVE-2023-48291)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8f57-wcmg-4jmh

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 412616

Version: Revision 1.7

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: 1.2

Percentile: 0.01

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-48291

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/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: 12/21/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/21/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-48291

cwe: CWE-668