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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2020-11981

An issue was found in Apache Airflow versions 1.10.10 and below. When using CeleryExecutor, if an attacker can connect to the broker (Redis, RabbitMQ) directly, it is possible to inject commands, resulting in the celery worker running arbitrary commands.

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1 Nov 2026, 06:32 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2020-11981

core-osv · Original source

Published 17 Jul 2020, 00:15 UTC

An issue was found in Apache Airflow versions 1.10.10 and below. When using CeleryExecutor, if an attacker can connect to the broker (Redis, RabbitMQ) directly, it is possible to inject commands, resulting in the celery worker running arbitrary commands.

osv:CVE-2020-11981
Complete source record
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  "published_at": "2020-07-17T00:15:10.4+00:00"
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