CVE-2021-45230

mediumpriority · track · 27EPSS 0.017 · 77 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

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no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

1.71% (77th) EPSS

CVSS 4 · medium

Is it mine?

8 products

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Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · osv · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

In Apache Airflow prior to 2.2.0. This CVE applies to a specific case where a User who has "can_create" permissions on DAG Runs can create Dag Runs for dags that they don't have "edit" permissions for.

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

v2.04mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/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:N/I:H/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 2.8 · impact 3.6

v3.16.5mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:Nsecondary · OSV

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

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-269US

affected products (8)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Apache Software Foundation Apache Airflow≤ Apache Airflow 1.10 1.10.0 to 1.10.15enisa_euvdEU
Apache Software Foundation Apache AirflowApache Airflow 2 → 2.2.0enisa_euvdEU
apache airflow1.10.0 → 1.10.15nvdUScpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
apache airflow2.0.0 → 2.2.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Bitnami airflow2.0.0 → 2.2.0osvUSpkg:bitnami/airflow
PyPI apache-airflow< 2.2.0osvUSpkg:pypi/apache-airflow
PyPI apache-airflow1.10.0 → 2.0.0b1osvUSpkg:pypi/apache-airflow
PyPI apache-airflow2.0.0 → 2.2.0osvUSpkg:pypi/apache-airflow

advisories (3)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-4jh2-3c85-q67hImproper Privilege Management in apache-airflow2022-01-28ghsa · osvUS
In Apache Airflow prior to 2.2.0. This CVE applies to a specific case where a User who has "can_create" permissions on DAG Runs can create Dag Runs for dags that they don't have "edit" permissions for.
BIT-airflow-2021-45230Apache Airflow: Creating DagRuns didn't respect Dag-level permissions in the Webserver2024-03-06vendor · osvUS
In Apache Airflow prior to 2.2.0. This CVE applies to a specific case where a User who has "can_create" permissions on DAG Runs can create Dag Runs for dags that they don't have "edit" permissions for.
PYSEC-2022-112022-01-20vendor · osvUS
In Apache Airflow prior to 2.2.0. This CVE applies to a specific case where a User who has "can_create" permissions on DAG Runs can create Dag Runs for dags that they don't have "edit" permissions for.

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 2022-01-20modified 2026-06-17

references (5)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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