CVE-2024-39863 Apache Airflow: Potential XSS Vulnerability

What is CVE-2024-39863?

CVE-2024-39863 is a high-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Apache Airflow, published on 17 Jul 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Apache Airflow versions before 2.9.3 have a vulnerability that allows an authenticated attacker to inject a malicious link when installing a provider. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.9.3, which fixes this issue.

Weakness: CWE-79

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-39863?

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-2024-39863?

Upgrade apache-airflow to 2.9.3 or later.

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-2024-39863 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-39863 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-2024-39863, ECHO-7034-9751-0b4f, GHSA-j482-47xf-p25c, PYSEC-2024-189.