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Apache Airflow

CVE-2020-11978: Apache Airflow Command Injection

Is it exploited?

Yes. CISA added it to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on , 551 days after the CVE record was published.

How likely is exploitation in the next 30 days?
99.2%

EPSS score, percentile 99.9 of all scored records

How severe?
8.8 High

CVSS v3.1 base score, from CISA's enrichment of the record

What should I do?

CISA deadline . Apply updates per vendor instructions.

The CVE record links no vendor advisory, patch or mitigation.

Which versions are affected?

Affected

  • 1.10.10 and below

Versions by product

Source: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, 2026.10.28, as of ; FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS), v2026.06.15, as of ; CVE List V5 (CVE Program), cve_2026-10-28_0000Z, as of . About the data.

What to do

Required action, set by CISA

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

CISA due date for this action: .

Advisories and patches

The CVE record links no vendor advisory, patch or mitigation.

Linked from CISA's catalog entry

Affected products and versions

As listed in the CVE record.

Apache Software Foundation Apache Airflow
StatusVersions
Affected1.10.10 and below

Source: CVE List V5 (CVE Program), cve_2026-10-28_0000Z, as of . About the data.

About this vulnerability

A remote code/command injection vulnerability was discovered in one of the example DAGs shipped with Airflow.

Summary: CISA's KEV catalog, as of .

  • CISA added CVE-2020-11978 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog on 18 Jan 2022.
  • CISA's ransomware flag for this entry is "Unknown": no evidence of ransomware use in the catalog, which is not proof of none.
  • The due date CISA sets for the required action is 18 Jul 2022.
  • The CVE record was published on 16 Jul 2020, 551 days before it was added to KEV.
  • The CVE record carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 8.8 (High), taken from CISA's enrichment of the record.
  • FIRST's EPSS model puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 99.2% (percentile 99.9), as of 28 Oct 2026.
  • CISA's SSVC assessment in the CVE record: exploitation active, automatable no, technical impact total.

Source: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, 2026.10.28, as of ; CVE List V5 (CVE Program), cve_2026-10-28_0000Z, as of ; FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS), v2026.06.15, as of . About the data.

Description

An issue was found in Apache Airflow versions 1.10.10 and below. A remote code/command injection vulnerability was discovered in one of the example DAGs shipped with Airflow which would allow any authenticated user to run arbitrary commands as the user running airflow worker/scheduler (depending on the executor in use). If you already have examples disabled by setting load_examples=False in the config then you are not vulnerable.

Source: CVE List V5 (CVE Program), cve_2026-10-28_0000Z, as of . About the data.

Weakness

  • CWE-78: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection')

CWE and CAPEC are maintained by MITRE; the entries are those named in the CVE record and the KEV entry.

Timeline

DateEvent
CVE record published
Added to CISA KEV
CISA due date for the required action
CVE record last updated

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