CVE-2023-39508 Apache Airflow: Airflow "Run task" feature allows execution with unnecessary priviledges

2023-08-0506:47:14

CWE-200

CWE-250

apache

www.cve.org

cve-2023-39508

apache airflow

unnecessary privileges

sensitive information

unauthorized actor

vulnerability

AI Score

9.1

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.002

Percentile

51.8%

JSON

Execution with Unnecessary Privileges, : Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor vulnerability in Apache Software Foundation Apache Airflow.The “Run Task” feature enables authenticated user to bypass some of the restrictions put in place. It allows to execute code in the webserver context as well as allows to bypas limitation of access the user has to certain DAGs. The “Run Task” feature is considered dangerous and it has been removed entirely in Airflow 2.6.0

This issue affects Apache Airflow: before 2.6.0.

CNA Affected

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    "defaultStatus": "unaffected",
    "product": "Apache Airflow",
    "vendor": "Apache Software Foundation",
    "versions": [
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        "lessThan": "2.6.0",
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "0",
        "versionType": "semver"
      }
    ]
  }
]