What is CVE-2020-11983?

CVE-2020-11983 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Apache Airflow, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2020-07-17.

How severe is CVE-2020-11983?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.

XSS in Apache Airflow

CVE-2020-11983

An issue was found in Apache Airflow versions 1.10.10 and below. It was discovered that many of the admin management screens in the new/RBAC UI handled escaping incorrectly, allowing authenticated users with appropriate permissions to create stored XSS attacks.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.018 (75.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.4 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Apache Airflow
Apache Software Foundation Airflow — versions 1.10.10 and below

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

security@apache.org (Mailing List, x_refsource_MISC, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-11983?: CVE-2020-11983 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Apache Airflow, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2020-07-17.
How severe is CVE-2020-11983?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.