MEDIUM4.8

PYSEC-2026-617

Apache Airflow vulnerable to XSS and local file disclosure

Quick fix

PYSEC-2026-617 — airflow: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

pip install --upgrade 'airflow>=1.10.6'

Details

A malicious admin user could edit the state of objects in the Airflow metadata database to execute arbitrary javascript on certain page views. This also presented a Local File Disclosure vulnerability to any file readable by the webserver process.

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Affected packages

PyPI/airflow

Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 1.10.6

Fixpip install --upgrade 'airflow>=1.10.6'

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-12417[ADVISORY]
https://github.com/apache/airflow/commit/caf1f264b845153b9a61b00b1a57acb7c320e743[WEB]
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-q3p4-gw7r-wqjc[ADVISORY]
https://github.com/apache/airflow[PACKAGE]
https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/apache-airflow/PYSEC-2019-216.yaml[WEB]
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/f3aa5ff9c7cdb5424b6463c9013f6cf5db83d26c66ea77130cbbe1bc@%3Cusers.airflow.apache.org%3E[WEB]
https://pypi.org/project/airflow[PACKAGE]