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CVE-2019-12417
A malicious admin user could edit the state of objects in the Airflow metadata database to execute arbitrary javascript on certain page…
Medium4.8EPSS 1.3%
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- apache
Description
A malicious admin user could edit the state of objects in the Airflow metadata database to execute arbitrary javascript on certain page views. This also presented a Local File Disclosure vulnerability to any file readable by the webserver process.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium4.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.3% · top 30% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.8.
Weakness
- Stored XSS and Local File Disclosure
- CWE-79 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-79 and its CVEs
Affected products
Apache Airflow
- affected Apache Airflow up to 1.10.5
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- PyPIairflowGHSA-q3p4-gw7r-wqjc (opens in a new tab)
References (1)
- [airflow-users] 20191030 [CVE-2019-12417] Apache Airflow stored xss and local file disclosure vulnerability <= 1.10.5 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-q3p4-gw7r-wqjc (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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