January 18, 2022 · Applied Cybernetics Group
CVE-2020-11978 — Apache Airflow
Apache Airflow Command Injection
- Added to KEV
2022-01-18- Federal due date
2022-07-18- Vendor
- Apache
- Product
- Airflow
- EPSS
- 99.9th percentile (score 0.992, as of
2026-09-16) - NVD CVSS v3.1
- —
- Ransomware use
- Unknown
- Upstream
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-11978
CISA short description
A remote code/command injection vulnerability was discovered in one of the example DAGs shipped with Airflow.
Required action
Apply updates per vendor instructions.