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CVE-2020-17511

ROUTINE

Telemetry drift only. No threshold crossed and no authority ruling changed.

CVE record, CISA KEV and EPSS as of 2026-10-18.

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What to do now held facts and links

  1. Upgrade to 1.10.13 or later CVE record
  2. Later advisories still cover the fixes above and name higher ones: airflow 1.10.15 (CVE-2020-13944), 1.10.15 (CVE-2020-17515), 1.10.14 (CVE-2020-17526), 1.10.15 (CVE-2021-28359), 2.1.2 (CVE-2021-35936), 2.2.4 (CVE-2021-45229), 2.2.4 (CVE-2022-24288), 2.3.1 (CVE-2022-27949), 2.3.4 (CVE-2022-38170), 2.3.0 (CVE-2022-38649), 2.4.0 (CVE-2022-40127), 2.3.0 (CVE-2022-40189), 2.3.0 (CVE-2022-40954), 2.3.0 (CVE-2022-41131), 2.4.2 (CVE-2022-41672), 2.4.2 (CVE-2022-43982), 2.4.2 (CVE-2022-43985), 2.4.3 (CVE-2022-45402), 2.6.3 (CVE-2022-46651), 2.5.1 (CVE-2023-22884), 2.6.3 (CVE-2023-22887), 2.6.3 (CVE-2023-22888), 2.5.2 (CVE-2023-25695), 2.6.0 (CVE-2023-25754), 2.6.0 (CVE-2023-29247), 2.6.3 (CVE-2023-35908), 2.6.3 (CVE-2023-36543), 2.7.0 (CVE-2023-37379), 2.7.0 (CVE-2023-39441), 2.6.0 (CVE-2023-39508), 2.7.1 (CVE-2023-40273), 2.7.3 (CVE-2023-40611), 2.7.1 (CVE-2023-40712), 2.7.2 (CVE-2023-42663), 2.7.2 (CVE-2023-42780), 2.7.3 (CVE-2023-42781), 2.7.2 (CVE-2023-42792), 2.7.0 (CVE-2023-46215), 2.7.3 (CVE-2023-47037), 2.8.0 (CVE-2023-48291), 2.8.0 (CVE-2023-50783), 2.8.1 (CVE-2023-50943), 2.8.1 (CVE-2023-50944), 2.9.2 (CVE-2024-25142), 2.8.2 (CVE-2024-26280), 2.8.2 (CVE-2024-27906), 2.9.3 (CVE-2024-39863), 2.10.0 (CVE-2024-41937), 2.10.1 (CVE-2024-45034), 2.10.3 (CVE-2024-45784), 2.10.3 (CVE-2024-50378), 2.11.1 (CVE-2024-56373), 2.11.1 (CVE-2025-27555), 3.2.0 (CVE-2025-54550), 2.11.1 (CVE-2025-65995), 3.1.6 (CVE-2025-68675), 3.1.7 (CVE-2026-24098), 3.1.8 (CVE-2026-25219), 3.2.0 (CVE-2026-25917), 3.2.0 (CVE-2026-30898), 3.2.0 (CVE-2026-30912), 3.3.0 (CVE-2026-33264), 3.2.1 (CVE-2026-38743), 3.2.1 (CVE-2026-40690), 3.2.2 (CVE-2026-40861), 3.2.2 (CVE-2026-42358), 3.2.2 (CVE-2026-42360), 3.2.2 (CVE-2026-45192), 3.2.2 (CVE-2026-45360), 3.2.2 (CVE-2026-46764), 3.2.2 (CVE-2026-48726), 3.3.0 (CVE-2026-48828), 3.3.0 (CVE-2026-48891), 3.3.0 (CVE-2026-48892), 3.3.0 (CVE-2026-49296), 3.2.2 (CVE-2026-49298), 3.3.0 (CVE-2026-49487), 3.3.1 (CVE-2026-54183), 3.3.1 (CVE-2026-59242), 3.3.1 (CVE-2026-59244), 3.3.1 (CVE-2026-68076), 3.3.1 (CVE-2026-68968), 3.3.1 (CVE-2026-68969), 3.3.1 (CVE-2026-68970), 3.3.1 (CVE-2026-68971), 3.3.2 (CVE-2026-75157), 3.3.2 (CVE-2026-75158) OSV advisories
  3. Record your decision, dated and frozen with today's evidence: patch by a date · mitigated by a compensating control · deferred · accepted the risk · not affected
  4. Check your version against the ranges this record publishes.

What it is stated by the CNA

In Airflow versions prior to 1.10.13, when creating a user using airflow CLI, the password gets logged in plain text in the Log table in Airflow Metadatase. Same happened when creating a Connection with a password field.

weakness
Admin password gets logged in plain text
affected
Apache Software Foundation Apache Airflow
published ranges
apache airflow < 1.10.13
fixed in
1.10.13
fixed by package (from OSV advisories)
airflow (Bitnami): 1.10.13 BIT-airflow-2020-17511apache-airflow (PyPI): 1.10.13 GHSA-cvcq-gmc3-q6m8 PYSEC-2020-262
later fixes (from OSV advisories)
airflow 1.10.13 is inside a range CVE-2020-13944 (BIT-airflow-2020-13944) lists as affected. That advisory is fixed in 1.10.15.airflow 1.10.13 is inside a range CVE-2020-17515 (BIT-airflow-2020-17515) lists as affected. That advisory is fixed in 1.10.15.airflow 1.10.13 is inside a range CVE-2020-17526 (BIT-airflow-2020-17526) lists as affected. That advisory is fixed in 1.10.14.airflow 1.10.13 is inside a range CVE-2021-28359 (BIT-airflow-2021-28359) lists as affected. That advisory is fixed in 1.10.15.airflow 1.10.13 is inside a range CVE-2021-35936 (BIT-airflow-2021-35936) lists as affected. That advisory is fixed in 2.1.2.airflow 1.10.13 is inside a range CVE-2021-45229 (BIT-airflow-2021-45229) lists as affected. That advisory is fixed in 2.2.4.
assigned by
apache
published
2020-12-14

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Exploit code held, dated

exploit code
None held in the PoC-in-GitHub feed. A public repository changes this brief.

What moved held, dated

dateEPSSevent
14 Apr 20210.01241
6 Jan 20220.05337
4 Feb 20220.09029
1 Apr 20220.00885
7 Mar 20230.00095scoring model v2023.03.01
17 Mar 20250.00181scoring model v2025.03.14
8 May 20260.00487
15 Jun 20260.02537scoring model v2026.06.15
8 Sep 20260.02568
14 Sep 20260.02618

22 observations held. A step marked with a scoring model moved because the measurement was replaced, not because the vulnerability changed.

Outside the record researched, cited

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What would change this brief held, dated

CISA KEV
Not listed in the catalogue we hold. A listing changes this brief.
exploit probability
0.03 on 2026-09-14 (FIRST's EPSS, a probability and not evidence of exploitation). Next band line: 10% (0.10). Crossing a line changes this brief.
fix
Held: 1.10.13. A newer fix from the CNA or OSV changes this brief.

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How to check this

Every value above is held with two dates: when it was true upstream (as_of) and when we recorded it (tx_from). Re-derive the exploit probability as it stood on any date:

SELECT value, source, source_version, as_of, tx_from
FROM volatile_valid_as_of('CVE-2020-17511', '2026-10-31T23:59:59.999999Z', now());