Apache Airflow up to 1.10.10 Admin Management Screen Stored cross site scripting

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability marked as problematic has been reported in Apache Airflow up to 1.10.10. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component Admin Management Screen. The manipulation leads to cross site scripting (Stored). This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2020-11983. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists.

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A vulnerability was found in Apache Airflow up to 1.10.10. It has been rated as problematic. This issue affects an unknown code of the component Admin Management Screen. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability (Stored). Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-79. The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users. Impacted is integrity. The summary by CVE is:

An issue was found in Apache Airflow versions 1.10.10 and below. It was discovered that many of the admin management screens in the new/RBAC UI handled escaping incorrectly, allowing authenticated users with appropriate permissions to create stored XSS attacks.

The weakness was disclosed 07/17/2020 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at lists.apache.org. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2020-11983 since 04/21/2020. The attack may be initiated remotely. A simple authentication is needed for exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 07/17/2020). The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1059.007 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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Productinfo

Type

• Business Process Management Software

Vendor

• Apache

Name

• Airflow

Version

• 1.10.0
• 1.10.1
• 1.10.2
• 1.10.3
• 1.10.4
• 1.10.5
• 1.10.6
• 1.10.7
• 1.10.8
• 1.10.9
• 1.10.10

License

• open-source

Website

• Vendor: https://www.apache.org/

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