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Vulnerability details: VCID-b3w3-h9cm-ufgm
Vulnerability ID VCID-b3w3-h9cm-ufgm
Aliases CVE-2023-39508
GHSA-269x-pg5c-5xgm
PYSEC-2023-134
Summary Execution with Unnecessary Privileges, : Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor vulnerability in Apache Software Foundation Apache Airflow.The "Run Task" feature enables authenticated user to bypass some of the restrictions put in place. It allows to execute code in the webserver context as well as allows to bypas limitation of access the user has to certain DAGs. The "Run Task" feature is considered dangerous and it has been removed entirely in Airflow 2.6.0 This issue affects Apache Airflow: before 2.6.0.
Status Published
Exploitability None
Weighted Severity None
Risk None
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (3)
CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
CWE-937 OWASP Top Ten 2013 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
CWE-1035 OWASP Top Ten 2017 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
System Score Found at
There are no known severity scores.
Reference id Reference type URL
https://github.com/apache/airflow
https://github.com/apache/airflow/commit/101d59c4b88ab979d305b8d96f612c27c8a44aa8
https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/29706
https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/apache-airflow/PYSEC-2023-134.yaml
https://lists.apache.org/thread/j2nkjd0zqvtqk85s6ywpx3c35pvzyx15
CVE-2023-39508 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-39508
GHSA-269x-pg5c-5xgm https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-269x-pg5c-5xgm
No exploits are available.
There are no known vectors.

No EPSS data available for this vulnerability.

Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-06-02T04:19:17.030701+00:00 Pypa Importer Import https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/blob/main/vulns/apache-airflow/PYSEC-2023-134.yaml 38.6.0