CVE-2020-17511

Published: Dec 14, 2020Modified: Jun 17, 2026

6.5

Vector

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

Exploitability: 2.8 / Impact: 3.6

Source: NVD

Description

In Airflow versions prior to 1.10.13, when creating a user using airflow CLI, the password gets logged in plain text in the Log table in Airflow Metadatase. Same happened when creating a Connection with a password field.

Affected (1)

Products: Apache: Airflow

Apache

1 product

Airflow

Configuration A

1 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Apache Airflow	Before 1.10.13

Related CWEs

CWE-312

Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information

The product stores sensitive information in cleartext within a resource that might be accessible to another control sphere.

References (2)

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ree782a29d927b96bf0b39fb92e2f1f09ea3112a985f7a08ce93765ac%40%3Cusers.airflow.apache.org%3E

Source: security@apache.org

Mailing ListThird Party Advisory

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ree782a29d927b96bf0b39fb92e2f1f09ea3112a985f7a08ce93765ac%40%3Cusers.airflow.apache.org%3E

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

Mailing ListThird Party Advisory

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