# Apache Airflow vulnerable to Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output

Advisory record · `GHSA-c392-whpc-vfpr`

- **Identifiers:** `GHSA-c392-whpc-vfpr` · `BIT-airflow-2024-45498` · `CVE-2024-45498` · `PYSEC-2024-266`
- **State:** Confirmed
- **Severity:** CVSS 8.8 High
- **Critical:** No
- **Weakness (CWE):** [CWE-116](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/116.html)
- **Tags:** [CWE-116](https://agentprime.io/advisories/tag/cwe-116.md)
- **Published:** 7 Sept 2024
- **Updated:** 10 Sept 2026
- **Reviewed by a person:** No

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 7 Sept 2024, 09:30 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

## Affected packages

- `apache-airflow` (PyPI): affected `>=2.10.0, <2.10.1`; fixed in `2.10.1`

## Machine-written summary

Summary written by Claude Haiku from the source advisory. Not reviewed by a person.

> Apache Airflow versions 2.10.0 up to 2.10.1 are affected through the example DAG example_inlet_event_extra.py, which ships with 2.10.0. An authenticated user who has only permission to trigger DAGs can use it to run arbitrary commands. Upgrade to Airflow 2.10.1 or later; if you copied this example into your own DAGs, review them, and avoid exposing example DAGs in your deployment.

Written 5 Nov 2026.

## Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our analysis of this Advisory yet. Once a person has reviewed it, this page will say what’s vulnerable, what has to be true for your app to be affected, and how to check.

## Severity and exploitation

- 8.8 High, CVSS 3.1: `CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`, from GitHub Advisory Database

- **CISA KEV:** Not listed.
- **EPSS:** 0.012, the 69th percentile, on 10 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

## Timeline

- 31 Oct 2026, 14:35 UTC: First seen by agentprime
- 31 Oct 2026, 14:35 UTC: [Confirmed by OSV](https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-c392-whpc-vfpr)

## Sources

- [GitHub Advisory Database: GHSA-c392-whpc-vfpr](https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-c392-whpc-vfpr)
- [OSV: GHSA-c392-whpc-vfpr](https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-c392-whpc-vfpr)
- <https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-45498>
- <https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/41873>
- <https://github.com/apache/airflow/commit/09ec2616568f8a18e0d5fe408110fae06ddf748f>
- <https://github.com/apache/airflow>
- <https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/apache-airflow/PYSEC-2024-266.yaml>
- <https://lists.apache.org/thread/tl7lzczcqdmqj2pcpbvtjdpd2tb9561n>
- <https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/09/06/2>
- <http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/09/06/2>

Facts on this page come from the GitHub Advisory Database (CC-BY 4.0), OSV and the other sources listed, as published. We don’t reproduce full advisory descriptions, which can contain exploit code.

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