CVE-2021-35936
Published: 16 August 2021
Summary
CVE-2021-35936 is a medium-severity Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor (CWE-200) vulnerability in Apache Airflow. Its CVSS base score is 5.3 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked in the top 16.4% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2021-0013
Vulnerability details
If remote logging is not used, the worker (in the case of CeleryExecutor) or the scheduler (in the case of LocalExecutor) runs a Flask logging server and is listening on a specific port and also binds on 0.0.0.0 by default.…
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This logging server had no authentication and allows reading log files of DAG jobs. This issue affects Apache Airflow < 2.1.2.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Session auditing enables detection of unauthorized exposure or access to sensitive information during user activities.
Privacy and security architectures require controls to protect sensitive information from unauthorized exposure across the system lifecycle.
Inventory identifies all systems holding or processing data, enabling detection of unauthorized exposure paths before exploitation.
Protection planning for critical infrastructure directly calls for authentication of access to essential functions before any operation is permitted.
Risk assessments evaluate exposure of critical functions lacking authentication and prioritize corrective controls.
Requires authentication gates on critical functions that must remain unavailable to anonymous public users.
Treats remote activation of surveillance-capable devices as a critical function that must be disabled or authenticated.
Decoys supply misleading data and log access attempts, directly detecting and deflecting unauthorized information exposure.