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CVE-2019-12398In Apache Airflow before 1.10.5 when running with the "classic" UI, a malicious admin user could edit the state of objects in the Airflow…
- 4.8MediumCVSS base score
- 2.8%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 13% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
In Apache Airflow before 1.10.5 when running with the "classic" UI, a malicious admin user could edit the state of objects in the Airflow metadata database to execute arbitrary javascript on certain page views. The new "RBAC" UI is unaffected.
Timeline
ID reserved
By apache
- 8 months later
· 8 months later
Published
- 5 years later
· 5 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 | 3.1 | Medium4.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.8% · top 13% of all CVEs (14 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.8.
Affected products
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- PyPIapache-airflowGHSA-rjvg-q57v-mjjc (opens in a new tab)
References
References3
- [airflow-dev] 20200114 [CVE-2019-12398] Apache Airflow Stored XSS vulnerability in classic UI (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20200114 [CVE-2019-12398] Apache Airflow Stored XSS vulnerability in classic UI (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [airflow-users] 20200114 [CVE-2019-12398] Apache Airflow Stored XSS vulnerability in classic UI (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-2020-0035 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-rjvg-q57v-mjjc (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2019-12398)Record last updated .