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CVE-2021-38540

CRITICAL CVSS: 9.8 Published: 2021-09-09 Modified: 2026-06-17

Description

The variable import endpoint was not protected by authentication in Airflow >=2.0.0, <2.1.3. This allowed unauthenticated users to hit that endpoint to add/modify Airflow variables used in DAGs, potentially resulting in a denial of service, information disclosure or remote code execution. This issue affects Apache Airflow >=2.0.0, <2.1.3.

Affected Platforms

Apache Airflow

Weakness Type

CWE-269, CWE-306

References