CVE-2020-17511
MEDIUM
6.5
CVSS Score
Published: December 14, 2020 at 09:40 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 02:59 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorAirflow
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Severity
MEDIUM6.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 3%
Description
In Airflow versions prior to 1.10.13, when creating a user using airflow CLI, the password gets logged in plain text in the Log table in Airflow Metadatase. Same happened when creating a Connection with a password field.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.
References (1)
x_refsource_MISCMailing ListThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ree782a29d927b96bf0b39fb92e2f1f09ea3112a985f7a08ce93765ac%40%3Cusers.airflow.apache.org%3ECVSS
- Attack Vector
- NETWORK
- Complexity
- LOW
- Privileges
- LOW
- User Interaction
- NONE
- Scope
- UNCHANGED
- Confidentiality
- HIGH
- Integrity
- NONE
- Availability
- NONE
Vector?
Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-312
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