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CVE-2023-25754
Apache Airflow: Privilege escalation using airflow logs
Critical9.8EPSS 2.3%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- apache
Description
Privilege Context Switching Error vulnerability in Apache Software Foundation Apache Airflow.This issue affects Apache Airflow: before 2.6.0.
Timeline
ID reserved
By apache
- 3 months later
· 3 months later
Published
- 22 months later
· 22 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.3% · top 17% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: total
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Weakness
Affected products
Apache Software Foundation · Apache Airflow
- affected < 2.6.0
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- PyPIapache-airflowGHSA-jchm-fm4q-c2fp (opens in a new tab)
References (3)
- https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/29506 (opens in a new tab)patchx_transferred
- https://lists.apache.org/thread/3y83gr0qb8t49ppfk4fb2yk7md8ltq4v (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/05/08/2 (opens in a new tab)x_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-jchm-fm4q-c2fp (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2023-25754)Record last updated .