CVE-2022-40189

Apache Airlfow Pig Provider RCE

State
Published
Severity
9.8 Critical
Published
Nov 22, 2022
Updated
Apr 29, 2025
Reserved
Sep 8, 2022

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Description

Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection') vulnerability in Apache Airflow Pig Provider, Apache Airflow allows an attacker to control commands executed in the task execution context, without write access to DAG files. This issue affects Pig Provider versions prior to 4.0.0. It also impacts any Apache Airflow versions prior to 2.3.0 in case Pig Provider is installed (Pig Provider 4.0.0 can only be installed for Airflow 2.3.0+). Note that you need to manually install the Pig Provider version 4.0.0 in order to get rid of the vulnerability on top of Airflow 2.3.0+ version.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.19.8 CriticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCISA-ADP

Weaknesses

  • CWE-78 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection')

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Apache Airlfow Pig ProviderApache Software Foundation
  • before 4.0.0Affected
Apache AirflowApache Software Foundation
  • before 2.3.0Affected

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