🛡️ CVE-2022-40954 — airflow

🟡 CVSS 5.5 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-78 NVD
5.5
CVSS Score
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Description

Apache Airflow Spark Provider RCE that bypass restrictions to read arbitrary files

Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection') vulnerability in Apache Airflow Spark Provider, Apache Airflow allows an attacker to read arbtrary files in the task execution context, without write access to DAG files. This issue affects Spark Provider versions prior to 4.0.0. It also impacts any Apache Airflow versions prior to 2.3.0 in case Spark Provider is installed (Spark Provider 4.0.0 can only be installed for Airflow 2.3.0+). Note that you need to manually install the Spark Provider version 4.0.0 in order to get rid of the vulnerability on top of Airflow 2.3.0+ version that has lower version of the Spark Provider installed).

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, 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.

Weakness class

CVE-2022-40954 is classified as CWE-78: OS Command Injection. Untrusted input reaches a shell command without neutralisation, so an attacker can run arbitrary operating system commands.

Affected software

CVE-2022-40954 is recorded against 3 packages.

  • airflow
  • apache-airflow (fixed in 2.3.0)
  • apache-airflow-providers-apache-spark (fixed in 4.0.0)

Timeline and source

Published on 6 March 2024 and last revised on 7 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

github.com (Web)
lists.apache.org (Web)
nvd.nist.gov (Web)

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 5.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE CWE-78
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2024-03-06
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-07-07

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
airflow — —
apache-airflow — 2.3.0
apache-airflow-providers-apache-spark — 4.0.0

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