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SCA: security update for apache-airflow (GHSA-pm87-24wq-r8w9)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 417591

Description

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

 - The session fixation vulnerability allowed the authenticated user to continue accessing Airflow webserver
 even after the password of the user has been reset by the admin - up until the expiry of the session of
 the user. Other than manually cleaning the session database (for database session backend), or changing
 the secure_key and restarting the webserver, there were no mechanisms to force-logout the user (and all
 other users with that). With this fix implemented, when using the database session backend, the existing
 sessions of the user are invalidated when the password of the user is reset. When using the securecookie
 session backend, the sessions are NOT invalidated and still require changing the secure key and restarting
 the webserver (and logging out all other users), but the user resetting the password is informed about it
 with a flash message warning displayed in the UI. Documentation is also updated explaining this behaviour.
 Users of Apache Airflow are advised to upgrade to version 2.7.0 or newer to mitigate the risk associated
 with this vulnerability. (CVE-2023-40273)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-pm87-24wq-r8w9

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 417591

Version: Revision 1.12

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: 57.58

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-40273

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8

Temporal Score: 7

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.6

Threat Score: 6.1

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/23/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/23/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-40273

cwe: CWE-384