AVID-2026-R1293

Description

Apache Airflow: Improper access control to DAG resources (CVE-2023-48291)

Details

Apache Airflow, in versions prior to 2.8.0, contains a security vulnerability that allows an authenticated user with limited access to some DAGs, to craft a request that could give the user write access to various DAG resources for DAGs that the user had no access to, thus, enabling the user to clear DAGs they shouldn’t.

This is a missing fix for CVE-2023-42792 in Apache Airflow 2.7.2 

Users of Apache Airflow are strongly advised to upgrade to version 2.8.0 or newer to mitigate the risk associated with this vulnerability.

Reason for inclusion in AVID: CVE-2023-48291 describes an authentication/authorization vulnerability in Apache Airflow that allows an authenticated user to gain write access to DAG resources, enabling potential manipulation of AI data pipelines. Airflow is a common orchestration component in general-purpose AI systems (training/feature pipelines, model deployment workflows). This is a software vulnerability affecting a component used to build/run AI systems, thus relevant to the AI software supply chain.

References

• NVD entry
• https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/34366
• https://lists.apache.org/thread/3nl0h014274yjlt1hd02z0q78ftyz0z3
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/12/21/1

Affected or Relevant Artifacts

• Developer: Apache Software Foundation
• Deployer: Apache Software Foundation
• Artifact Details:

Impact

AVID Taxonomy Categorization

• Risk domains: Security
• SEP subcategories: S0100: Software Vulnerability
• Lifecycle stages: L06: Deployment

CWE

Other information

• Report Type: Advisory
• Credits:
• Date Reported: 2023-12-21
• Version: 0.3.3
• AVID Entry