CVE-2020-17511 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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. Same happened when creating a Connection with a password field.

Published: 2020-12-14

Score: 6.5 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

Apache Software Foundation

Apache Airflow

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`Apache Airflow`	affected	< 1.10.13

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2020-0043	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. Same happened when creating a Connection with a password field.
Github GHSA	GHSA-cvcq-gmc3-q6m8	Apache Airflow logs passwords in plaintext

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication Single

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00487.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ree782a29d927b96bf0b39fb92e2f1f09ea3112a985f7a08ce93765ac%40%3Cusers.airflow.apache.org%3E

History

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Subscriptions

Apache Airflow

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: apache

Published: 2020-12-14T09:40:15.000Z

Updated: 2025-02-13T16:27:32.260Z

Reserved: 2020-08-12T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2020-17511

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2020-12-14T10:15:12.373

Modified: 2024-11-21T05:08:15.580

Link: CVE-2020-17511

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-312

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