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CVE-2023-50943

UNKNOWN
Published 2024-01-24T12:57:07.287Z
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CVSS Score

V3.1
7.5
/10
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Base Score Metrics
Exploitability: N/A Impact: N/A

EPSS Score

v2025.03.14
0.002
probability
of exploitation in the wild

There is a 0.2% chance that this vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days.

Updated: 2025-06-25
Exploit Probability
Percentile: 0.378
Higher than 37.8% of all CVEs

Attack Vector Metrics

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED

Impact Metrics

Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
NONE

Description

Apache Airflow, versions before 2.8.1, have a vulnerability that allows a potential attacker to poison the XCom data by bypassing the protection of "enable_xcom_pickling=False" configuration setting resulting in poisoned data after XCom deserialization. This vulnerability is considered low since it requires a DAG author to exploit it. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.8.1 or later, which fixes this issue.

Available Exploits

No exploits available for this CVE.

Related News

No news articles found for this CVE.

Affected Products

Apache Software Foundation

Apache Airflow

Affected Versions:

0

GitHub Security Advisories

Community-driven vulnerability intelligence from GitHub

✓ GitHub Reviewed HIGH

Apache Airflow: pickle deserialization vulnerability in XComs

GHSA-c3c6-f2ww-xfr2

Advisory Details

Apache Airflow, versions before 2.8.1, have a vulnerability that allows a potential attacker to poison the XCom data by bypassing the protection of "enable_xcom_pickling=False" configuration setting resulting in poisoned data after XCom deserialization. This vulnerability is considered low since it requires a DAG author to exploit it. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.8.1 or later, which fixes this issue.

Affected Packages

PyPI apache-airflow
ECOSYSTEM: ≥0 <2.8.1rc1

CVSS Scoring

CVSS Score

7.5

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

References

ADVISORY https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-50943
WEB https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/36255
WEB https://github.com/apache/airflow/commit/2c4c5bc604e9ab0cc1e98f7bee7d31d566579462
PACKAGE https://github.com/apache/airflow
WEB https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/apache-airflow/PYSEC-2024-13.yaml
WEB https://lists.apache.org/thread/fx278v0twqzxkcts70tc04cp3f8p56pn
WEB http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/01/24/4

Advisory provided by GitHub Security Advisory Database. Published: January 24, 2024, Modified: February 13, 2025

References

https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/36255
https://lists.apache.org/thread/fx278v0twqzxkcts70tc04cp3f8p56pn
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/01/24/4
Published: 2024-01-24T12:57:07.287Z
Last Modified: 2025-05-30T14:16:49.346Z
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