Security advisory

{
  "id": "2bcff81fa2d2373ab6f5d009505c54b430e27f74df9c49bd3363a6d347cdab80",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-11982",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2020-11982",
    "summary": "An issue was found in Apache Airflow versions 1.10.10 and below. When using CeleryExecutor, if an attack can connect to the broker (Redis, RabbitMQ) directly, it was possible to insert a malicious payload directly to the broker which could lead to a deserialization attack (and thus remote code execution) on the Worker.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2020-11982",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "critical",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2020-11982",
      "aliases": [
        "BIT-airflow-2020-11982",
        "CVE-2020-11982",
        "GHSA-9g2w-5f3v-mfmm",
        "PYSEC-2020-16"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/apache/airflow",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "1c2d5de877a993a6541e017d4d59938315814448"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "1.10.10"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "constraints-1.10.9",
            "constraints-1.10.8",
            "constraints-1.10.7",
            "constraints-1.10.6",
            "constraints-1.10.5",
            "constraints-1.10.4",
            "constraints-1.10.3",
            "constraints-1.10.2",
            "constraints-1.10.10",
            "constraints-1.10.1"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-11982.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:43.858095421Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r7255cf0be3566f23a768e2a04b40fb09e52fcd1872695428ba9afe91%40%3Cusers.airflow.apache.org%3E"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2020-11982",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 435727,
  "published_at": "2020-07-17T00:15:10.477+00:00"
}