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Low · 2.8 CVE-2020-17511 BIT-airflow-2020-17511EUVD-2020-0043GHSA-cvcq-gmc3-q6m8PYSEC-2020-262

Apache Airflow logs passwords in plaintext

Published Dec 14, 2020 · Updated Feb 13, 2025 · Assigned by apache

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 products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Apache Software Foundation Apache Airflow Apache Airflow – < 1.10.13 1.10.13

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
PyPI apache-airflow < 1.10.13 1.10.13 GHSA-cvcq-gmc3-q6m8

References