CVE-2022-27949 Apache Airflow prior to 2.3.1 may include sensitive values in rendered template

What is CVE-2022-27949?

CVE-2022-27949 is a high-severity vulnerability in Apache Airflow, published on 14 Nov 2022. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A vulnerability in UI of Apache Airflow allows an attacker to view unmasked secrets in rendered template values for tasks which were not executed (for example when they were depending on past and previous instances of the task failed). This issue affects Apache Airflow prior to 2.3.1.

Weakness: CWE-200

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-27949?

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-2022-27949?

Upgrade apache-airflow to 2.3.1 or later.

Is CVE-2022-27949 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-27949 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-2022-27949, GHSA-fvw2-2pf7-77vw, PYSEC-2022-42981.