CVE-2024-45034 Apache Airflow: Authenticated DAG authors could execute code on scheduler nodes

What is CVE-2024-45034?

CVE-2024-45034 is a high-severity code injection vulnerability in Apache Airflow, published on 7 Sep 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Apache Airflow versions before 2.10.1 have a vulnerability that allows DAG authors to add local settings to the DAG folder and get it executed by the scheduler, where the scheduler is not supposed to execute code submitted by the DAG author. Users are advised to upgrade to version 2.10.1 or later, which has fixed the vulnerability.

Weakness: CWE-250

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-45034?

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-2024-45034?

Upgrade apache-airflow to 2.10.1 or later.

Upgrade, and never evaluate templates, expressions or code built from user input. More about Code injection.

Is CVE-2024-45034 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-45034 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
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Also known as BIT-airflow-2024-45034, ECHO-5933-7ea4-233c, GHSA-92xg-gmrq-5c3w, PYSEC-2024-212.