CVE-2023-40611 Apache Airflow Dag Runs Broken Access Control Vulnerability

What is CVE-2023-40611?

CVE-2023-40611 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Apache Airflow, published on 12 Sep 2023.

Official description

Apache Airflow, versions before 2.7.1, is affected by a vulnerability that allows authenticated and DAG-view authorized Users to modify some DAG run detail values when submitting notes. This could have them alter details such as configuration parameters, start date, etc.

Users should upgrade to version 2.7.1 or later which has removed the vulnerability.

Weakness: CWE-863

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-40611?

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-2023-40611?

Upgrade apache-airflow to 2.7.1 or later.

Is CVE-2023-40611 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-40611 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-2023-40611, GHSA-wpg8-mf6h-gm92, PYSEC-2023-170.