{"answers":{"affected":"4 open source packages ship an affected version, including apache-airflow and airflow. It affects 1 product.","exploited":"Yes. Attackers have exploited CVE-2020-11978 in the wild since at least 18 Jan 2022.","fix":"Upgrade apache-airflow to 1.10.11rc1 or later. US federal agencies must fix it by 18 Jul 2022.","what":"CVE-2020-11978 is a high-severity command injection vulnerability in Apache Airflow, published on 16 Jul 2020. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2020-11978 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2020-11978 is a high-severity command injection vulnerability in Apache Airflow, published on 16 Jul 2020. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: Yes. Attackers have exploited CVE-2020-11978 in the wild since at least 18 Jan 2022.\n\nAffected packages and fixed versions:\n- apache-airflow (PyPI): affected all versions; fixed in 1.10.11rc1\n- apache-airflow (PyPI): affected all versions; fixed in 1.10.11rc1\n- apache-airflow (PyPI): affected all versions; fixed in 1.10.11rc1\n- airflow (Bitnami): affected all versions; fixed in 1.10.11\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-11978/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-11978/index.md)","id":"CVE-2020-11978","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-11978/index.md","name":"CVE-2020-11978","record":{"aliases":["BIT-airflow-2020-11978","GHSA-rvmq-4x66-q7j3","PYSEC-2020-14"],"analysis":{"component_type":"server_software","fix_type":"configuration_change","impacts":["code_execution"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":true,"product_category":"Apache Airflow","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"Authenticated users can execute arbitrary commands via example DAGs in Apache Airflow unless examples are disabled in the configuration.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"command_injection"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"apache","cpe":[{"product":"airflow","vendor":"apache"}],"cvss":{"score":8.8,"severity":"high","source":"cisa-adp","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-78","name":"Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command"}],"description":"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.","ecosystems":["Bitnami","PyPI"],"exploits":{"exploitdb":1,"first_seen":"2020-07-14","github_poc":1,"max_poc_stars":8,"metasploit":1,"nuclei":1,"refs":[{"date":"2021-05-22T15:58:01Z","kind":"github_poc","ref":"https://github.com/pberba/CVE-2020-11978","stars":8,"title":"PoC of how to exploit a RCE vulnerability of the example DAGs in Apache Airflow \u003c1.10.11 "},{"date":"2020-07-14","kind":"metasploit","ref":"exploit/linux/http/apache_airflow_dag_rce","stars":null,"title":"Apache Airflow 1.10.10 - Example DAG Remote Code Execution"},{"date":"2021-06-02","kind":"exploitdb","ref":"49927","stars":null,"title":"Apache Airflow 1.10.10 - 'Example Dag' Remote Code Execution"},{"date":null,"kind":"nuclei","ref":"http/cves/2020/CVE-2020-11978.yaml","stars":null,"title":"Apache Airflow \u003c=1.10.10 - Remote Code Execution"}],"tier":"exploited"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"Apache Airflow Command Injection","id":"CVE-2020-11978","indexable":true,"kev":{"dateAdded":"2022-01-18","dueDate":"2022-07-18","knownRansomwareCampaignUse":"Unknown","product":"Airflow","requiredAction":"Apply updates per vendor instructions.","vendorProject":"Apache","vulnerabilityName":"Apache Airflow Command Injection"},"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":"Bitnami","product":"apache:airflow","products":["apache:airflow"],"type":"command_injection","year":"2020"},"n_packages":4,"n_references":3,"next":{"headline":"Code injection in Apache Ant","id":"CVE-2020-11979"},"packages":[{"ecosystem":"Bitnami","fixed":["1.10.11"],"introduced":["0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"airflow","purl":"pkg:bitnami/airflow","source":"BIT-airflow-2020-11978"},{"ecosystem":"PyPI","fixed":["1.10.11rc1"],"introduced":["0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"apache-airflow","purl":null,"source":"GHSA-rvmq-4x66-q7j3"},{"ecosystem":"PyPI","fixed":["1.10.11rc1"],"introduced":["0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"apache-airflow","purl":"pkg:pypi/apache-airflow","source":"GHSA-rvmq-4x66-q7j3"},{"ecosystem":"PyPI","fixed":["1.10.11rc1"],"introduced":["0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"apache-airflow","purl":"pkg:pypi/apache-airflow","source":"PYSEC-2020-14"}],"prev":{"headline":"Shell command injection in Apache Syncope","id":"CVE-2020-11977"},"products":["Apache Airflow"],"published":"2020-07-16","related":[{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Apache Airflow's Experimental API Authentication Bypass","id":"CVE-2020-13927","kev_date_added":"2022-01-18","published":"2020-11-10"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Apache Airflow: DAG author RCE on webserver via unrestricted import_string() in BaseSerialization.deserialize()","id":"CVE-2026-33264","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2026-07-07"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Apache Airflow: Privilege escalation using airflow logs","id":"CVE-2023-25754","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2023-05-08"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Apache Airflow, Apache Airflow MySQL Provider: Arbitrary file read via MySQL provider in Apache Airflow","id":"CVE-2023-22884","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2023-01-21"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Apache Airflow Pinot provider allowed Command Injection","id":"CVE-2022-38649","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2022-11-22"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Apache Airlfow Pig Provider RCE","id":"CVE-2022-40189","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2022-11-22"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"Apache-2.0","name":"Bitnami","prefix":"BIT"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CC BY 4.0","name":"GitHub Advisory Database","prefix":"GHSA"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CC BY 4.0","name":"PyPA Advisory Database","prefix":"PYSEC"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"open","licence":"CC0 1.0","name":"CISA KEV"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"BSD-3-Clause","name":"Metasploit"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"GPL-2.0-or-later","name":"Exploit-DB"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"MIT","name":"Nuclei templates"},{"class":"open","licence":"CC0","name":"PoC-in-GitHub"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"active","technical_impact":"total"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2025-10-21","vendors":["Apache Software Foundation"]},"summary":"Authenticated users can execute arbitrary commands via example DAGs in Apache Airflow unless examples are disabled in the configuration.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-11978/"}