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🛡️ CVE-2023-46215 — airflow

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-532 NVD
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Description

Apache Airflow Celery provider, Apache Airflow: Sensitive information logged as clear text when rediss, amqp, rpc protocols are used as Celery result backend

Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File vulnerability in Apache Airflow Celery provider, Apache Airflow.

Sensitive information logged as clear text when rediss, amqp, rpc protocols are used as Celery result backend

Note: the vulnerability is about the information exposed in the logs not about accessing the logs.

This issue affects Apache Airflow Celery provider: from 3.3.0 through 3.4.0; Apache Airflow: from 1.10.0 through 2.6.3.

Users are recommended to upgrade Airflow Celery provider to version 3.4.1 and Apache Airlfow to version 2.7.0 which fixes the issue.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no 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:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

  • Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: None — an unauthenticated stranger can try it.
  • 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-2023-46215 is classified as CWE-532: Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File. Sensitive values are written to logs, which are typically kept longer and read more widely than the data warrants.

Affected software

CVE-2023-46215 is recorded against 4 packages.

  • airflow
  • airflow-celery-provider (from 3.3.0 up to 3.4.0)
  • apache-airflow (from 1.10.0 up to 2.7.0)
  • apache-airflow-providers-celery (from 3.3.0 up to 3.4.1)

Timeline and source

Published on 6 March 2024 and last revised on 13 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

www.openwall.com (Web)
github.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-532: Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File) in other software:

CVE-2023-46215 on other distributions

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

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE CWE-532
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2024-03-06
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-07-13

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
airflow
airflow-celery-provider 3.3.0 3.4.0
apache-airflow 1.10.0 2.7.0
apache-airflow-providers-celery 3.3.0 3.4.1

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