CVE detail
CVE-2020-11978
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.
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Buzz score components · mention 11.0 · diversity 10.0 · KEV 25.0 · OTX 0.0 · PoC 0.0
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Evidence
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US CISA added seventeen new actively exploited vulnerabilities to the ‘Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog’. The ‘Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog‘ is a list of known vulnerabilities that threat actors have abused in attacks and that are required to be addressed by Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agencies. According to Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 22-01: Reducing the […]
newssecurityaffairs.comJan 23, 2022, 6:13 PMNetwork security trends, May-July 2021: We analyze how vulnerabilities are being exploited in the wild and rank the most common types of attacks.
vendorunit42.paloaltonetworks.comSep 17, 2021, 10:00 PM
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