🛡️ CVE-2024-45498 — airflow

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-116 OSV
8.0
CVSS Score
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Description

Apache Airflow vulnerable to Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output

Example DAG: example_inlet_event_extra.py shipped with Apache Airflow version 2.10.0 has a vulnerability that allows an authenticated attacker with only DAG trigger permission to execute arbitrary commands. If you used that example as the base of your DAGs - please review if you have not copied the dangerous example; see https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/41873  for more information. We recommend against exposing the example DAGs in your deployment. If you must expose the example DAGs, upgrade Airflow to version 2.10.1 or later.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, 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 high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2024-45498 is classified as CWE-116: Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output. Output is emitted without encoding it for the context it lands in, so data is interpreted as markup or code.

Affected software

CVE-2024-45498 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • airflow
  • apache-airflow (from 2.10.0 up to 2.10.1)

Timeline and source

Published on 10 September 2024 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

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

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-116
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2024-09-10
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
airflow — —
apache-airflow 2.10.0 2.10.1

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