CVE-2024-50378 Apache Airflow: Secrets not masked in UI when sensitive variables are set via Airflow cli
Authenticated users with audit log access can view sensitive secrets stored unencrypted in logs when set via CLI, requiring an upgrade to fix.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- An administrator
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2024-50378?
CVE-2024-50378 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Apache Airflow, published on 8 Nov 2024. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Airflow versions before 2.10.3 have a vulnerability that allows authenticated users with audit log access to see sensitive values in audit logs which they should not see. When sensitive variables were set via airflow CLI, values of those variables appeared in the audit log and were stored unencrypted in the Airflow database. While this risk is limited to users with audit log access, it is recommended to upgrade to Airflow 2.10.3 or a later version, which addresses this issue. Users who previously used the CLI to set secret variables should manually delete entries with those variables from the log table.
Weakness: CWE-201
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-50378?
4 open source packages ship an affected version, including apache-airflow and airflow. It affects 1 product.
| Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
apache-airflow PyPI | All versions | 2.10.3 |
apache-airflow PyPI | All versions | 2.10.3 |
apache-airflow PyPI | All versions | 2.10.3 |
airflow Bitnami | All versions | 2.10.3 |
Products include Apache Airflow.
How do I fix CVE-2024-50378?
Upgrade apache-airflow to 2.10.3 or later.
Is CVE-2024-50378 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-50378 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Apache Airflow
- CVE-2020-13927 Apache Airflow's Experimental API Authentication Bypass
- CVE-2020-11978 Apache Airflow Command Injection
- CVE-2026-33264 Apache Airflow: DAG author RCE on webserver via unrestricted import_string() in BaseSerialization.deserialize()
- CVE-2023-25754 Apache Airflow: Privilege escalation using airflow logs
- CVE-2023-22884 Apache Airflow, Apache Airflow MySQL Provider: Arbitrary file read via MySQL provider in Apache Airflow
Sources
Also known as BIT-airflow-2024-50378, ECHO-6aaf-e0c8-990a, GHSA-j857-2pwm-jjmm, PYSEC-2026-1134.