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CVE-2020-11978

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CVE-2020-11978

Published: Jul 16, 2020

Modified: Oct 21, 2025

PUBLISHED

Description

An issue was found in Apache Airflow versions 1.10.10 and below. A remote code/command injection vulnerability was discovered in one of the example DAGs shipped with Airflow which would allow any authenticated user to run arbitrary commands as the user running airflow worker/scheduler (depending on the executor in use). If you already have examples disabled by setting load_examples=False in the config then you are not vulnerable.

VendorProductVersions

Apache Software Foundation

Apache Airflow

affected
1.10.10 and below

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