CVE-2020-17511

mediumpriority · track · 27OT risk · elevatedEPSS 0.026 · 85 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

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no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

2.62% (85th) EPSS

CVSS 4 · medium

Is it mine?

4 products

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Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · osv · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-25

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.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

6.5

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · low–medium · 2.8–6.5

v2.04mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8 · impact 2.9

v3.16.5mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 2.8 · impact 3.6

v3.12.8lowCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:Nsecondary · OSV

v3.16mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-312USprimaryCWE-312US

affected products (4)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Apache Software Foundation Apache AirflowApache Airflow → 1.10.13enisa_euvdEU
apache airflow< 1.10.13nvdUScpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Bitnami airflow< 1.10.13osvUSpkg:bitnami/airflow
PyPI apache-airflow< 1.10.13osvUSpkg:pypi/apache-airflow

advisories (3)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-cvcq-gmc3-q6m8Apache Airflow logs passwords in plaintext2020-12-17ghsa · osvUS
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. The same happenes when creating a Connection with a password field.
BIT-airflow-2020-175112024-03-06vendor · osvUS
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.
PYSEC-2020-2622020-12-14vendor · osvUS
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.

also known as (7)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd osv nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2020-12-14modified 2026-06-17

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references (4)

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