CVE-2022-38649

criticalpriority · track · 40EPSS 0.033 · 89 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP2 · Scheduled

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

3.34% (89th) EPSS

CVSS 9.8 · critical

Is it mine?

6 products

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Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · osv · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-23

Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection') vulnerability in Apache Airflow Pinot Provider, Apache Airflow allows an attacker to control commands executed in the task execution context, without write access to DAG files. This issue affects Apache Airflow Pinot Provider versions prior to 4.0.0. It also impacts any Apache Airflow versions prior to 2.3.0 in case Apache Airflow Pinot Provider is installed (Apache Airflow Pinot Provider 4.0.0 can only be installed for Airflow 2.3.0+). Note that you need to manually install the Pinot Provider version 4.0.0 in order to get rid of the vulnerability on top of Airflow 2.3.0+ version.

cvss

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

9.8

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v3.19.8criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 5.9

v3.19.8criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · ENISA EU

v3.19.8criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondaryexploitability 3.9 · impact 5.9

v3.19.8criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · OSV

v3.19criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

ssvc

A stakeholder decision — act, attend, or track — from exploitation and impact.

Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical Impact: totalcoordinatorcisa_ssvcUS

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-78USCWE-78US

affected products (6)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Apache Software Foundation Apache Airflowunspecified → 2.3.0enisa_euvdEU
Apache Software Foundation Apache Airflow Pinot Providerunspecified → 4.0.0enisa_euvdEU
apache airflow< 2.3.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
apache apache-airflow-providers-apache-pinot< 4.0.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:apache:apache-airflow-providers-apache-pinot:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Bitnami airflow< 2.3.0osvUSpkg:bitnami/airflow
PyPI apache-airflow< 2.3.0osvUSpkg:pypi/apache-airflow

advisories (3)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-7wqf-h36w-47mcOS Command Injection in Apache Airflow2022-11-22ghsa · osvUS
Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection') vulnerability in Apache Airflow Pinot Provider, Apache Airflow allows an attacker to control commands executed in the task execution context, without write access to DAG files. This issue affects Apache Airflow Pinot Provider versions prior to 4.0.0. It also impacts any Apache Airflow versions prior to 2.3.0 in case Apache Airflow Pinot Provider is installed (Apache Airflow Pinot Provider 4.0.0 can only be installed for Airflow 2.3.0+). Note that you need to manually install the Pinot Provider version 4.0.0 in order to get rid of the vulnerability on top of Airflow 2.3.0+ version.
BIT-airflow-2022-38649Apache Airflow Pinot provider allowed Command Injection2024-03-06vendor · osvUS
Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection') vulnerability in Apache Airflow Pinot Provider, Apache Airflow allows an attacker to control commands executed in the task execution context, without write access to DAG files. This issue affects Apache Airflow Pinot Provider versions prior to 4.0.0. It also impacts any Apache Airflow versions prior to 2.3.0 in case Apache Airflow Pinot Provider is installed (Apache Airflow Pinot Provider 4.0.0 can only be installed for Airflow 2.3.0+). Note that you need to manually install the Pinot Provider version 4.0.0 in order to get rid of the vulnerability on top of Airflow 2.3.0+ version.
PYSEC-2026-267OS Command Injection in Apache Airflow2026-06-29vendor · osvUS
Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection') vulnerability in Apache Airflow Pinot Provider, Apache Airflow allows an attacker to control commands executed in the task execution context, without write access to DAG files. This issue affects Apache Airflow Pinot Provider versions prior to 4.0.0. It also impacts any Apache Airflow versions prior to 2.3.0 in case Apache Airflow Pinot Provider is installed (Apache Airflow Pinot Provider 4.0.0 can only be installed for Airflow 2.3.0+). Note that you need to manually install the Pinot Provider version 4.0.0 in order to get rid of the vulnerability on top of Airflow 2.3.0+ version.

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 2022-11-22modified 2026-06-17

references (7)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

https://cxsecurity.com/cveshow/CVE-2022-38649/cnnvd
https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/27641 cnnvd
https://lists.apache.org/thread/033o1gbc4ly6dpd2xf1o201v56fbl4dz cnnvd
https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/27641 enisa_euvd
https://lists.apache.org/thread/033o1gbc4ly6dpd2xf1o201v56fbl4dz enisa_euvd
https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/27641PatchThird Party Advisorynvd
https://lists.apache.org/thread/033o1gbc4ly6dpd2xf1o201v56fbl4dzIssue TrackingMailing ListVendor Advisorynvd

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