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SCA: security update for apache-airflow (GHSA-cff3-5qrp-hqx7)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 413857

Description

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

 - Improper Preservation of Permissions vulnerability in Apache Airflow.This issue affects Apache Airflow
 from 2.8.2 through 2.8.3. Airflow's local file task handler in Airflow incorrectly set permissions for all
 parent folders of log folder, in default configuration adding write access to Unix group of the folders.
 In the case Airflow is run with the root user (not recommended) it added group write permission to all
 folders up to the root of the filesystem. If your log files are stored in the home directory, these
 permission changes might impact your ability to run SSH operations after your home directory becomes
 group-writeable. This issue does not affect users who use or extend Airflow using Official Airflow Docker
 reference images ( https://hub.docker.com/r/apache/airflow/ ) - those images require to have group write
 permission set anyway. You are affected only if you install Airflow using local installation / virtualenv
 or other Docker images, but the issue has no impact if docker containers are used as intended, i.e. where
 Airflow components do not share containers with other applications and users. Also you should not be
 affected if your umask is 002 (group write enabled) - this is the default on many linux systems.
 Recommendation for users using Airflow outside of the containers: * if you are using root to run Airflow,
 change your Airflow user to use non-root * upgrade Apache Airflow to 2.8.4 or above * If you prefer not to
 upgrade, you can change the https://airflow.apache.org/docs/apache-airflow/stable/configurations-
 ref.html#file-task-handler-new-folder-permissions to 0o755 (original value 0o775). * if you already ran
 Airflow tasks before and your default umask is 022 (group write disabled) you should stop Airflow
 components, check permissions of AIRFLOW_HOME/logs in all your components and all parent directories of
 this directory and remove group write access for all the parent directories (CVE-2024-29735)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-cff3-5qrp-hqx7

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 413857

Version: Revision 1.17

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: 3

Percentile: 23.93

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-29735

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/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: 3/26/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/26/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-29735

cwe: CWE-281