CVE-2017-12614

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2018-08-06 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

It was noticed an XSS in certain 404 pages that could be exploited to perform an XSS attack. Chrome will detect this as a reflected XSS attempt and prevent the page from loading. Firefox and other browsers don't, and are vulnerable to this attack. Mitigation: The fix for this is to upgrade to Apache Airflow 1.9.0 or above.

Affected products

Apache Airflow: before 1.9.0 — fixed in 1.9.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Apache Airflow 1.9.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/2c72480c76619c5e7793f0d213c34082f0598eaa4d212172f068940f%40%3Cdev.airflow.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/2c72480c76619c5e7793f0d213c34082f0598eaa4d212172f068940f%40%3Cdev.airflow.apache.org%3E

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