🛡️ CVE-2023-49920 — airflow

🟡 CVSS 5.0 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-352 OSV
5.0
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Description

Apache Airflow Cross-Site Request Forgery vulnerability

Apache Airflow, version 2.7.0 through 2.7.3, has a vulnerability that allows an attacker to trigger a DAG in a GET request without CSRF validation. As a result, it was possible for a malicious website opened in the same browser - by the user who also had Airflow UI opened - to trigger the execution of DAGs without the user's consent.

Users are advised to upgrade to version 2.8.0 or later which is not affected

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. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity high, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2023-49920 is classified as CWE-352: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF). A state-changing request is accepted without proof it was intended, so another site can trigger it using the victim's session.

Affected software

CVE-2023-49920 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • airflow
  • apache-airflow (from 2.7.0 up to 2.8.0)

Timeline and source

Published on 6 March 2024 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from OSV.

References

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

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 5.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CWE CWE-352
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2024-03-06
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-06-17

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
airflow — —
apache-airflow 2.7.0 2.8.0

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