CVE-2023-40273
The session fixation vulnerability allowed the authenticated user to continue accessing Airflow webserver even after the password of the user has been reset by the admin - up until the expiry of the session of the user.
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.85%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
The session fixation vulnerability allowed the authenticated user to continue accessing Airflow webserver even after the password of the user has been reset by the admin - up until the expiry of the session of the user. Other than manually cleaning the session database (for database session backend), or changing the secure_key and restarting the webserver, there were no mechanisms to force-logout the user (and all other users with that). With this fix implemented, when using the database session backend, the existing sessions of the user are invalidated when the password of the user is reset. When using the securecookie session backend, the sessions are NOT invalidated and still require changing the secure key and restarting the webserver (and logging out all other users), but the user resetting the password is informed about it with a flash message warning displayed in the UI. Documentation is also updated explaining this behaviour. Users of Apache Airflow are advised to upgrade to version 2.7.0 or newer to mitigate the risk associated with this vulnerability.
- CVSS 3.1
- 8.0 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 1.85% probability · 78th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-384
- Affected
- apache/airflow
- Source
- security@apache.org
References
- https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/33347Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.apache.org/thread/9rdmv8ln4y4ncbyrlmjrsj903x4l80njVendor Advisory
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/08/23/1Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/33347Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.apache.org/thread/9rdmv8ln4y4ncbyrlmjrsj903x4l80njVendor Advisory
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/08/23/1Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.