CVE-2020-11981: Apache Airflow

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 36.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was found in Apache Airflow versions 1.10.10 and below. When using CeleryExecutor, if an attacker can connect to the broker (Redis, RabbitMQ) directly, it is possible to inject commands, resulting in the celery worker running arbitrary commands.

Affected products

• Apache Airflow: up to and including 1.10.10

Published 2020-07-17. Last modified 2026-06-17.