CVE-2017-17836

Airflow vulnerability

CVSS

9.8

EPSS

3.2%

EPSS pct

87th

Exploited

No known

In Apache Airflow 1.8.2 and earlier, an experimental Airflow feature displayed authenticated cookies, as well as passwords to databases used by Airflow. An attacker who has limited access to airflow, whether it be via XSS or by leaving a machine unlocked can exfiltrate all credentials from the system.

Affected vendor

Apache

Affected product

Airflow

CVSS vector

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

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-255

Published

2019-01-23

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 3.2% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 87% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2017-17836

Confirm whether Apache Airflow is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2017-17836.
Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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