Severity: important

Affected versions:

- Apache Airflow 2.8.2 through 2.8.3

Description:

Improper Preservation of Permissions vulnerability in Apache Airflow.This issue 
affects Apache Airflow from 2.8.2 through 2.8.3.

Airflow's local file task handler in Airflow incorrectly set permissions for 
all parent folders of log folder, in default configuration adding write access 
to Unix group of the folders. In the case Airflow is run with the root user 
(not recommended) it added group write permission to all folders up to the root 
of the filesystem.

If your log files are stored in the home directory, these permission changes 
might impact your ability to run SSH operations after your home directory 
becomes group-writeable.

This issue does not affect users who use or extend Airflow using Official 
Airflow Docker reference images ( https://hub.docker.com/r/apache/airflow/ ) - 
those images require to have group write permission set anyway.

You are affected only if you install Airflow using local installation / 
virtualenv or other Docker images, but the issue has no impact if docker 
containers are used as intended, i.e. where Airflow components do not share 
containers with other applications and users.

Also you should not be affected if your umask is 002 (group write enabled) - 
this is the default on many linux systems.

Recommendation for users using Airflow outside of the containers:

  *  if you are using root to run Airflow, change your Airflow user to use 
non-root
  *  upgrade Apache Airflow to 2.8.4 or above
  *  If you prefer not to upgrade, you can change the  
https://airflow.apache.org/docs/apache-airflow/stable/configurations-ref.html#file-task-handler-new-folder-permissions
  to 0o755 (original value 0o775).
  *  if you already ran Airflow tasks before and your default umask is 022 
(group write disabled) you should stop Airflow components, check permissions of 
AIRFLOW_HOME/logs in all your components and all parent directories of this 
directory and remove group write access for all the parent directories

Credit:

Matej Murin (finder)

References:

https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/37310
https://airflow.apache.org/
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-29735


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