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Vulnerability details: VCID-ykge-bnhg-g7c4
Vulnerability ID VCID-ykge-bnhg-g7c4
Aliases CVE-2020-11982
GHSA-9g2w-5f3v-mfmm
PYSEC-2020-16
Summary An issue was found in Apache Airflow versions 1.10.10 and below. When using CeleryExecutor, if an attack can connect to the broker (Redis, RabbitMQ) directly, it was possible to insert a malicious payload directly to the broker which could lead to a deserialization attack (and thus remote code execution) on the Worker.
Status Published
Exploitability None
Weighted Severity None
Risk None
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (1)
CWE-502 Deserialization of Untrusted Data
System Score Found at
epss 0.05664 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-11982
cvssv3.1_qr CRITICAL https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-9g2w-5f3v-mfmm
Reference id Reference type URL
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2020-11982
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-9g2w-5f3v-mfmm
https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/13612
https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/7205
https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/apache-airflow/PYSEC-2020-16.yaml
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r7255cf0be3566f23a768e2a04b40fb09e52fcd1872695428ba9afe91%40%3Cusers.airflow.apache.org%3E
CVE-2020-11982 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-11982
No exploits are available.
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.90516
EPSS Score 0.05664
Published At May 30, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-05-30T20:19:31.490568+00:00 Pypa Importer Import https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/blob/main/vulns/apache-airflow/PYSEC-2020-16.yaml 38.6.0