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GHSA-6xwf-xvf3-v459 BIT-airflow-2024-26280 CVE-2024-26280 PYSEC-2024-42

Apache Airflow: Incorrect Default Permissions in audit logs for Ops and Viewers users

Medium PyPI
Severity
0.0 / 10
Medium · CVSS 4.0
Exploit chance (EPSS)
1.86%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Higher than 79.19% of scored vulnerabilities.
Known exploited
No
Not in CISA's catalog
Weakness
CWE-276 Incorrect Default Permissions
Fix
2.8.2
Upgrade apache-airflow to this version or later

Description

Apache Airflow, versions before 2.8.2, has a vulnerability that allows authenticated Ops and Viewers users to view all information on audit logs, including dag names and usernames they were not permitted to view. With 2.8.2 and newer, Ops and Viewer users do not have audit log permission by default, they need to be explicitly granted permissions to see the logs. Only admin users have audit log permission by default.

Users of Apache Airflow are recommended to upgrade to version 2.8.2 or newer to mitigate the risk associated with this vulnerability

Affected versions

PyPI

PackageVulnerableFixed in
apache-airflow
< 2.8.2
2.8.2

How to fix

Move to the fixed version or later with your package manager, update the lockfile, and run your tests. If the package only arrives through another dependency, upgrade that dependency first. If none of its releases pulls a fixed version yet, force the version with your package manager's override.

apache-airflow PyPI → 2.8.2

pip
pip install --upgrade "apache-airflow>=2.8.2"
poetry
poetry add "apache-airflow>=2.8.2"
uv
uv add "apache-airflow>=2.8.2"

Severity breakdown

CVSS 4.0 0.0

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Attack requirements
None
Privileges required
High
User interaction
None
Confidentiality (vulnerable system)
Low
Integrity (vulnerable system)
Low
Availability (vulnerable system)
Low
Confidentiality (subsequent systems)
None
Integrity (subsequent systems)
None
Availability (subsequent systems)
None

CVSS 3.1 4.7

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
High
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
Low

Weakness

CWE-276: Incorrect Default Permissions

During installation, installed file permissions are set to allow anyone to modify those files.

How to prevent it
  • Architecture and Design, Operation: The architecture needs to access and modification attributes for files to only those users who actually require those actions.
  • Architecture and Design: Compartmentalize the system to have "safe" areas where trust boundaries can be unambiguously drawn. Do not allow sensitive data to go outside of the trust boundary and always be careful when interfacing with a compartment outside of the safe area. Ensure that appropriate compartmentalization is built into the system design, and the compartmentalization allows for and reinforces privilege separation functionality. Architects and designers should rely on the principle of least privilege to decide the appropriate time to use privileges and the time to drop privileges.

References

Timeline

  1. Published
  2. Last updated by the source
  3. Latest EPSS score
AdvisorySeverityWhy it's related
CVE-2020-13927
Authentication bypass in Apache Airflow
Critical Known exploited Also affects apache-airflow
CVE-2020-11978
Remote code execution (RCE) in Apache Airflow
High Known exploited Also affects apache-airflow
PYSEC-2026-3990
Apache Airflow: the Core API logout endpoint revokes only a session token presented as the _token cookie.
Critical Also affects apache-airflow
PYSEC-2026-3989
When a request to the Airflow core API carries both a session cookie and an explicit `Authorization: Bearer` token, Airflow resolves the caller from the cookie…
Medium Also affects apache-airflow
PYSEC-2026-3988
Apache Airflow's `/assets/events` API returned asset events for every Dag in the deployment, with no filter restricting them to the Dags the caller is…
Medium Also affects apache-airflow
GHSA-5247-m8w9-2v4m
Apache Airflow missing team context permits cross-team Dag actions and XCom reads
Medium Also affects apache-airflow
GHSA-f3c2-j7g8-vpp8
Apache Airflow Task SDK fails to mask list-shaped JSON Variables
Medium Also affects apache-airflow
GHSA-cjv4-7hp2-2x9h
Apache Airflow bulk endpoints log Variable and Connection secrets in cleartext
Medium Also affects apache-airflow
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