CVE-2020-11983 Multiple stored XSS in RBAC Admin screens in Apache Airflow

What is CVE-2020-11983?

CVE-2020-11983 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Apache Airflow, published on 16 Jul 2020. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

An issue was found in Apache Airflow versions 1.10.10 and below. It was discovered that many of the admin management screens in the new/RBAC UI handled escaping incorrectly, allowing authenticated users with appropriate permissions to create stored XSS attacks.

Weakness: CWE-79

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-11983?

4 open source packages ship an affected version, including apache-airflow and airflow. It affects 1 product.

Products include Apache Airflow.

How do I fix CVE-2020-11983?

Upgrade apache-airflow to a fixed version for your release line: 1.10.11 or 1.10.11rc1.

Escape output for the context it lands in and set a strict Content Security Policy. Upgrading the affected component is the real fix. More about Cross-site scripting.

Is CVE-2020-11983 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-11983 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Apache Airflow

• CVE-2020-13927 Apache Airflow's Experimental API Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-11978 Apache Airflow Command Injection Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2026-33264 Apache Airflow: DAG author RCE on webserver via unrestricted import_string() in BaseSerialization.deserialize() Critical 9.8
• CVE-2023-25754 Apache Airflow: Privilege escalation using airflow logs Critical 9.8
• CVE-2023-22884 Apache Airflow, Apache Airflow MySQL Provider: Arbitrary file read via MySQL provider in Apache Airflow Critical 9.8

All Apache Airflow vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as BIT-airflow-2020-11983, GHSA-q4p3-qw5c-mhpc, PYSEC-2020-17.