Vulnerability identifier: #VU48934

Vulnerability risk: Medium

CVSSv3.1:

CVE-ID: CVE-2020-17515

CWE-ID: CWE-79

Exploitation vector: Network

Exploit availability: No

Vulnerable software:
Apache Airflow
Web applications / Modules and components for CMS

Vendor: Apache Foundation

Description

The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.

Note, this vulnerability exists due to incomplete fix for previous issue #VU46772.

Mitigation
Install updates from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

Apache Airflow: 1.0.0 - 1.10.13

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CPE

• cpe:2.3:a:apache_foundation:apache_airflow:1.10.13:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

External links
http://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r4656959c8ed06c1f6202d89aa4e67b35ad7bdba5a666caff3fea888e%40%3Cusers.airflow.apache.org%3E

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Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?