apache/airflow · Security
Apache Airflow logs passwords in plaintext
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-cvcq-gmc3-q6m8
- CVE ID
- CVE-2020-17511
- Severity
- low
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 2.8 · CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
- CVSS v3
- 2.8 · CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
- CVSS v4
- 2.4 · CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:A/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Description
In Airflow versions prior to 1.10.13, when creating a user using airflow CLI, the password gets logged in plain text in the Log table in Airflow Metadatase. The same happenes when creating a Connection with a password field.
CWEs
- CWE-312 · Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-17511 ↗
- https://github.com/apache/airflow/commit/4e32546faf227a6497ce8b282fff7450cae6f665 ↗
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ree782a29d927b96bf0b39fb92e2f1f09ea3112a985f7a08ce93765ac%40%3Cusers.airflow.apache.org%3E ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-cvcq-gmc3-q6m8 ↗
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/apache-airflow/PYSEC-2020-262.yaml ↗