High
Security advisory
In Apache Airflow 1.8.2 and earlier, an authenticated user can execute code remotely on the Airflow webserver by creating a special object.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2017-15720
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 04:51 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
In Apache Airflow 1.8.2 and earlier, an authenticated user can execute code remotely on the Airflow webserver by creating a special object.
osv:CVE-2017-15720
Complete source record
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