External-site redirect via unvalidated login destination
Published Nov 15, 2022 · Updated Apr 30, 2025
Open redirect in Apache Airflow's webserver before 2.4.3 allows remote attackers to send users to external sites through the login flow. The login view passed its user-controlled next parameter to Flask-AppBuilder's redirect helper instead of Airflow's same-origin get_safe_url check. Exploitation requires a user to complete an affected login flow, after which the browser is redirected to an attacker-chosen site for phishing.
Summary
What happened
Open redirect in Apache Airflow's webserver before 2.4.3 allows remote attackers to send users to external sites through the login flow. The login view passed its user-controlled next parameter to Flask-AppBuilder's redirect helper instead of Airflow's same-origin get_safe_url check. Exploitation requires a user to complete an affected login flow, after which the browser is redirected to an attacker-chosen site for phishing.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2022-45402
- Published
- Nov 15, 2022
- Updated
- Apr 30, 2025
- Vendor
- The Apache Software Foundation
- Product
- Apache Airflow
- Classifications
- CWE-601, T1204.001
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
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- Nov 15, 2022CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Apr 30, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=unspecified <2.4.3
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