Known exploited vulnerability

CVE-2020-11978

Apache Airflow Command Injection

Past due Added Federal deadline

What is affected

Vendor Apache
Product Airflow
Weakness CWE-78

The vulnerability

A remote code/command injection vulnerability was discovered in one of the example DAGs shipped with Airflow.

Required action

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

US federal civilian agencies were required to act by 18 July 2022 under BOD 22-01. The deadline is a compliance date, not a measure of severity — it says nothing about how dangerous the flaw is to anyone else.

Where this comes from

Every field on this page is taken from the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, last synced 12 Nov 2026, 00:29. Nothing here is our own assessment. For the technical scoring, see the NVD record below.

NVD record ↗ CVE.org record ↗

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