# 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.

- Page: https://www.vulneraibility.com/cve/CVE-2020-11978
- CVSS: 8.8
- Known exploited: yes, in CISA KEV since 2022-01-18; CISA due date 2022-07-18
- EPSS: 99.19% (percentile 99.9)
- Public exploit code: 1 on Exploit-DB · 1 Metasploit module · 1 GitHub proof of concept · 1 Nuclei template (first 2021-05-22)
- CISA SSVC: exploitation active, automatable no, technical impact total (assessed 2025-02-06)
- Weakness: CWE-78
- Published: 2020-07-17

## Affected versions

- Apache Software Foundation Apache Airflow: affected 1.10.10 and below

A version outside these ranges is not a statement that it is unaffected.

## References

- [other] https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r7255cf0be3566f23a768e2a04b40fb09e52fcd1872695428ba9afe91%40%3Cusers.airflow.apache.org%3E
- [other] http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/162908/Apache-Airflow-1.10.10-Remote-Code-Execution.html
- [other] http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/174764/Apache-Airflow-1.10.10-Remote-Code-Execution.html
- [other] https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2020-11978

---
Summary, impact and action are written by the vulneraibility.com AI analysis pipeline from the CVE record, NVD, CISA and FIRST data; verify against the references.