What is CVE-2019-12417?

CVE-2019-12417 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Apache Airflow, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 4.8/10. Published 2019-10-30.

How severe is CVE-2019-12417?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.8 out of 10.

Is CVE-2019-12417 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

XSS in Apache Airflow

CVE-2019-12417

A malicious admin user could edit the state of objects in the Airflow metadata database to execute arbitrary javascript on certain page views. This also presented a Local File Disclosure vulnerability to any file readable by the webserver process.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.013 (66.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.8 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Apache Airflow
N/a Apache Airflow — versions Apache Airflow up to 1.10.5

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

Public proof-of-concept exploits

fruh/security-bulletins

References

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

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-12417?: CVE-2019-12417 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Apache Airflow, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 4.8/10. Published 2019-10-30.
How severe is CVE-2019-12417?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.8 out of 10.
Is CVE-2019-12417 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.