GHSA-cvcq-gmc3-q6m8

Apache Airflow logs passwords in plaintext

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Low CVE-2020-17511

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
PyPI	apache-airflow	< 1.10.13	1.10.13

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

In Airflow versions prior to 1.10.13, when creating a user using airflow CLI, the password gets logged in plain text in the Log table in Airflow Metadatase. The same happenes when creating a Connection with a password field.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-17511 advisory
https://github.com/apache/airflow/commit/4e32546faf227a6497ce8b282fff7450cae6f665 web
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-cvcq-gmc3-q6m8 advisory
https://github.com/apache/airflow package
https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/apache-airflow/PYSEC-2020-262.yaml web
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ree782a29d927b96bf0b39fb92e2f1f09ea3112a985f7a08ce93765ac%40%3Cusers.airflow.apache.org%3E web