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CVE-2018-20244
In Apache Airflow before 1.10.2, a malicious admin user could edit the state of objects in the Airflow metadata database to execute…
- 5.5MediumCVSS base score
- 2.0%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 20% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
In Apache Airflow before 1.10.2, a malicious admin user could edit the state of objects in the Airflow metadata database to execute arbitrary javascript on certain page views.
Timeline
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By apache
- 2 months later
· 2 months later
Published
- 6 years later
· 6 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.0% · top 20% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.5.
Affected products
Apache Software Foundation · Apache Airflow
- affected Apache Airflow <= 1.10.1
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- PyPIapache-airflowGHSA-99cv-8cvv-666c (opens in a new tab)
References
3
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/f656fddf9c49293b3ec450437c46709eb01a12d1645136b2f1b8573b%40%3Cdev.airflow.apache.org%3E (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- [airflow-dev] 20190410 CVE-2019-0216, CVE-2019-0229 vulnerabilities affecting Apache Airflow <= 1.10.2 webserver component (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20190410 CVE-2019-0216, CVE-2019-0229 vulnerabilities affecting Apache Airflow <= 1.10.2 webserver component (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2019-0010 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-99cv-8cvv-666c (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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