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🛡️ CVE-2022-38170 — airflow

🟡 CVSS 5.0 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-732 OSV
5.0
CVSS Score
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Description

Apache Airflow exposes arbitrary file content

In Apache Airflow prior to 2.3.4, an insecure umask was configured for numerous Airflow components when running with the --daemon flag which could result in a race condition giving world-writable files in the Airflow home directory and allowing local users to expose arbitrary file contents via the webserver.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity none, availability none.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

  • Attack vector: Local — a local account, shell or session on the host is needed.
  • Attack complexity: High — the attacker first has to win a race, learn a secret or otherwise prepare the target.
  • Privileges required: Low — an ordinary user account is enough.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Integrity impact: None.
  • Availability impact: None.

Weakness class

CVE-2022-38170 is classified as CWE-732: Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource. A sensitive resource is assigned permissions that let unintended actors read or modify it.

Affected software

CVE-2022-38170 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • airflow
  • apache-airflow (fixed in 2.3.4)

Timeline and source

Published on 6 March 2024 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

www.openwall.com (Web)
www.openwall.com (Web)
www.openwall.com (Web)
lists.apache.org (Web)
nvd.nist.gov (Web)

Other advisories for this package

airflow has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-732: Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource) in other software:

CVE-2022-38170 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 5.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE CWE-732
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2024-03-06
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
airflow — —
apache-airflow — 2.3.4

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