CVE-2022-40127

highpriority · attend · 75EPSS 0.857 · 100 %ileexploit · PoCEURUUS

grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent

Exploitable?

Public exploit

2 exploits · PoC

Likely / severe?

85.7% (100th) EPSS

CVSS 8.8 · high

Is it mine?

5 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

5 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · fstec_bdu · osv

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

A vulnerability in Example Dags of Apache Airflow allows an attacker with UI access who can trigger DAGs, to execute arbitrary commands via manually provided run_id parameter. This issue affects Apache Airflow Apache Airflow versions prior to 2.4.0.

cvss

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

8.8

010

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

v3.18.8highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 2.8 · impact 5.9

v3.18.8highAV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · FSTEC (BDU) RU

v3.18.8highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · ENISA EU

v3.18.8highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondaryexploitability 2.8 · impact 5.9

v3.18.8highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · OSV

v3.18.8highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Hsecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

ssvc

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

Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical Impact: totalcoordinatorcisa_ssvcUS

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-78USCWE-94USCWE-94USCWE-94US

exploits (2)

Public proof-of-concept and weaponised exploit code.

Mr-xn/CVE-2022-40127Apache Airflow < 2.4.0 DAG example_bash_operator RCE POCPoC · poc_in_github
jakabakos/CVE-2022-40127-Airflow-RCECVE-2022-40127 PoC and exploitPoC · poc_in_github

affected products (5)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Apache Software Foundation Apache AirflowApache Airflow → 2.4.0enisa_euvdEU
Apache Software Foundation Airflow≤ 2.4.0fstec_bduRU
apache airflow< 2.4.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Bitnami airflow< 2.4.0osvUSpkg:bitnami/airflow
PyPI apache-airflow< 2.4.0osvUSpkg:pypi/apache-airflow

advisories (3)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-6pw3-8h9w-32gcApache Airflow vulnerable to OS Command Injection via example DAGs2022-11-14ghsa · osvUS
A vulnerability in Example Dags of Apache Airflow allows an attacker with UI access who can trigger DAGs, to execute arbitrary commands via manually provided run_id parameter. This issue affects Apache Airflow versions prior to 2.4.0.
BIT-airflow-2022-40127Apache Airflow <2.4.0 has an RCE in a bash example2024-03-06vendor · osvUS
A vulnerability in Example Dags of Apache Airflow allows an attacker with UI access who can trigger DAGs, to execute arbitrary commands via manually provided run_id parameter. This issue affects Apache Airflow Apache Airflow versions prior to 2.4.0.
PYSEC-2022-429822022-11-14vendor · osvUS
A vulnerability in Example Dags of Apache Airflow allows an attacker with UI access who can trigger DAGs, to execute arbitrary commands via manually provided run_id parameter. This issue affects Apache Airflow Apache Airflow versions prior to 2.4.0.

also known as (8)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd fstec_bdu osv nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2022-11-14modified 2026-06-17

references (11)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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