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SCA: security update for apache-airflow (GHSA-976r-qfjj-c24w)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 413098

Description

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

 - 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. (CVE-2020-11981)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-976r-qfjj-c24w

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 413098

Version: Revision 1.5

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: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-11981

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.3

Threat Score: 8.1

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/27/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/16/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-11981

cwe: CWE-78