← Global Threat Landscape
CVE-2020-11978
CWE-78
Critical
97.8
RPSRPS range: 0–105; KEV-listed vulnerabilities can receive an exploitation amplifier.
Description
An issue was found in Apache Airflow versions 1.10.10 and below. A remote code/command injection vulnerability was discovered in one of the example DAGs shipped with Airflow which would allow any authenticated user to run arbitrary commands as the user running airflow worker/scheduler (depending on the executor in use). If you already have examples disabled by setting load_examples=False in the config then you are not vulnerable.
Source: NVD
Signals
- CVSS
- 8.8
- High · v3.1
- EPSS
- 99.18%
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (FIRST)
- CISA KEV
- In CISA KEV since Jan 2022
- Fix commit
- Fix commit known
- Sources: MoreFixes, FreshFixes
- Weakness
- CWE-78
- Published
- 17 Jul 2020
- Last modified 23 Oct 2025
How to read these signals: RPS · EPSS · CISA KEV · Data sources
Get this score from the API
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer dsec_live_xxxxxxxx" \
https://api.intelligence.devsecure.io/api/v1/rps/CVE-2020-11978Replace the placeholder with your key. Get a free API key or rank your own CVEs.
Data as of 7 Oct 2026, 05:16 UK time