Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) in Apache Airflow - CVE-2020-17513

 

Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) in Apache Airflow - CVE-2020-17513

Published: December 11, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU48936
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2020-17513
CWE-ID: CWE-918
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform SSRF attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP request and trick the application to initiate requests to arbitrary systems.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker gain access to sensitive data, located in the local network or send malicious requests to other servers from the vulnerable system.


Affected software

Apache Airflow
FortiAnalyzer

How to mitigate CVE-2020-17513

Install updates from vendor's website.

Apache Airflow - update to 1.10.13
FortiAnalyzer - addressed in versions 6.4.8, 7.0.3

External References

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