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SCA: security update for apache-airflow (GHSA-rvmq-4x66-q7j3)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 418944

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. 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. (CVE-2020-11978)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-rvmq-4x66-q7j3

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 418944

Version: Revision 1.10

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: 57.73

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-11978

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 8.2

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.7

Threat Score: 8.7

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:A

Vector: 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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/27/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/16/2020

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 7/18/2022

Exploitable With

Metasploit (Apache Airflow 1.10.10 - Example DAG Remote Code Execution)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-11978