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CVE-2020-11978

HIGH · CVSS 8.8 EPSS 99.19% CISA KEV · Actively Exploited Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2020-07-17 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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Public Exploit Signal

A public exploit, PoC, GitHub repository or Metasploit reference was detected for this CVE.

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CISA KEV Details

Status: This CVE is listed in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

Ransomware use: Unknown

Added to KEV: 2022-01-18

Required action: Apply updates per vendor instructions.

CVE
CVE-2020-11978
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
8.8
EPSS
99.19%
Apache

Original NVD Description

An issue was found in Apache Airflow versions 1.10.10 and below. A remote code/command injection vulnerability was discovered in one of the example DAGs shipped with Airflow which would allow any authenticated user to run arbitrary commands as the user running airflow worker/scheduler (depending on the executor in use). If you already have examples disabled by setting load_examples=False in the config then you are not vulnerable.