THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2022-38649
CRITICAL SEVERITY

CVE-2022-38649

Airflow vulnerability

CVSS
9.8
EPSS
3.2%
EPSS pct
87th
Exploited
No known
Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection') vulnerability in Apache Airflow Pinot Provider, Apache Airflow allows an attacker to control commands executed in the task execution context, without write access to DAG files. This issue affects Apache Airflow Pinot Provider versions prior to 4.0.0. It also impacts any Apache Airflow versions prior to 2.3.0 in case Apache Airflow Pinot Provider is installed (Apache Airflow Pinot Provider 4.0.0 can only be installed for Airflow 2.3.0+). Note that you need to manually install the Pinot Provider version 4.0.0 in order to get rid of the vulnerability on top of Airflow 2.3.0+ version.
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-78 — OS Command Injection
Published
2022-11-22

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-2022-38649

  • Confirm whether Apache Airflow is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2022-38649.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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