THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2020-11982
CRITICAL SEVERITY

CVE-2020-11982

Airflow vulnerability

CVSS
9.8
EPSS
7.2%
EPSS pct
94th
Exploited
No known
An issue was found in Apache Airflow versions 1.10.10 and below. When using CeleryExecutor, if an attack can connect to the broker (Redis, RabbitMQ) directly, it was possible to insert a malicious payload directly to the broker which could lead to a deserialization attack (and thus remote code execution) on the Worker.
Affected vendor
Apache
Affected product
Airflow
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-502 — Deserialization of Untrusted Data
Published
2020-07-17

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 7.2% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 94% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2020-11982

  • Confirm whether Apache Airflow is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2020-11982.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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