An issue was found in Apache Airflow versions 1.10.10 and below. A remote code/command injection vulnerability was discovered in one of the example DAGs shipped with Airflow which would allow any authenticated user to run arbitrary commands as the user running airflow worker/scheduler (depending on the executor in use). If you already have examples disabled by setting load_examples=False in the config then you are not vulnerable.

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Source ID Title
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-rvmq-4x66-q7j3 Remote code execution (RCE) in Apache Airflow
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Wed, 22 Oct 2025 00:15:00 +0000


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{'dateAdded': '2022-01-18'}

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{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'active', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: apache

Published:

Updated: 2025-10-21T23:35:39.214Z

Reserved: 2020-04-21T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2020-11978

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Updated: 2024-08-04T11:48:58.274Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2020-07-17T00:15:10.337

Modified: 2025-10-23T14:49:31.793

Link: CVE-2020-11978

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