CVE-2020-17513 SSRF vulnerability in Apache Airflow

What is CVE-2020-17513?

CVE-2020-17513 is a medium-severity server-side request forgery vulnerability in Apache Airflow, published on 14 Dec 2020. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

In Apache Airflow versions prior to 1.10.13, the Charts and Query View of the old (Flask-admin based) UI were vulnerable for SSRF attack.

Weakness: CWE-918

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-17513?

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-2020-17513?

Upgrade apache-airflow to 1.10.13 or later.

Upgrade, and send outbound requests through an allow-list that blocks internal addresses. More about Server-side request forgery.

Is CVE-2020-17513 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-17513 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-2020-17513, GHSA-6r3p-fcvm-xh7c, PYSEC-2020-20.