CVE-2023-39508

Apache Airflow: Airflow "Run task" feature allows execution with unnecessary priviledges

State: Published
Severity: 8.8 High
Published: Aug 5, 2023
Updated: Feb 13, 2025
Reserved: Aug 3, 2023

Description

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	8.8 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-250 Execution with Unnecessary Privileges
CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Apache AirflowApache Software Foundation	before 2.6.0Affected

References

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