What is CVE-2017-12614?

CVE-2017-12614 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Apache Airflow, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2018-08-06.

How severe is CVE-2017-12614?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.

XSS in Apache Airflow

CVE-2017-12614

It was noticed an XSS in certain 404 pages that could be exploited to perform an XSS attack. Chrome will detect this as a reflected XSS attempt and prevent the page from loading. Firefox and other browsers don't, and are vulnerable to this attack. Mitigation: The fix for this is to upgrade to Apache Airflow 1.9.0 or above.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.020 (78.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.1 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Apache Airflow
Apache Software Foundation Airflow — versions < 1.9.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

security@apache.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-12614?: CVE-2017-12614 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Apache Airflow, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2018-08-06.
How severe is CVE-2017-12614?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.