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Vulnerability details: VCID-jrwf-mt69-1ydt
Vulnerability ID VCID-jrwf-mt69-1ydt
Aliases BIT-airflow-2021-45230
CVE-2021-45230
GHSA-4jh2-3c85-q67h
PYSEC-2022-11
Summary In Apache Airflow prior to 2.2.0. This CVE applies to a specific case where a User who has "can_create" permissions on DAG Runs can create Dag Runs for dags that they don't have "edit" permissions for.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 6.2
Risk 3.1
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (3)
CWE-1035 OWASP Top Ten 2017 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
CWE-937 OWASP Top Ten 2013 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management
System Score Found at
epss 0.01784 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2021-45230
cvssv3.1_qr MODERATE https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-4jh2-3c85-q67h
cvssv3.1 6.5 https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/apache-airflow/PYSEC-2022-11.yaml
generic_textual MODERATE https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/apache-airflow/PYSEC-2022-11.yaml
cvssv3.1 6.5 https://lists.apache.org/thread/m778ojn0k595rwco4ht9wjql89mjoxnl
generic_textual MODERATE https://lists.apache.org/thread/m778ojn0k595rwco4ht9wjql89mjoxnl
cvssv3.1 6.5 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-45230
generic_textual MODERATE https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-45230
Reference id Reference type URL
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2021-45230
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-4jh2-3c85-q67h
https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/apache-airflow/PYSEC-2022-11.yaml
https://lists.apache.org/thread/m778ojn0k595rwco4ht9wjql89mjoxnl
CVE-2021-45230 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-45230
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N Found at https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/apache-airflow/PYSEC-2022-11.yaml
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N Found at https://lists.apache.org/thread/m778ojn0k595rwco4ht9wjql89mjoxnl
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-45230
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

local

physical

low

high

none

low

high

none

required

unchanged

changed

high

low

none

high

low

none

high

low

none
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.83045
EPSS Score 0.01784
Published At May 30, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-05-30T20:29:18.516170+00:00 Pypa Importer Import https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/blob/main/vulns/apache-airflow/PYSEC-2022-11.yaml 38.6.0