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CVE-2022-40954

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CVE-2022-40954

Published: Nov 22, 2022

Modified: Apr 29, 2025

PUBLISHED

Description

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

VendorProductVersions

Apache Software Foundation

Apache Airflow Spark Provider

affected
unspecified - < 4.0.0

Apache Software Foundation

Apache Airflow

affected
unspecified - < 2.3.0

Weaknesses (CWE)

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