Re: CVE-2022-38170: Apache Airflow: Overly permissive umask for deamons

[Jed Cunningham <jedcunningham () apache org>]

Hi Seth,

Thanks for the feedback, and I agree. We will start adding links to the PR
fixing the issue going forward, starting with our announcements today.

Thanks,
Jed

On Fri, Sep 2, 2022, 2:43 PM Seth Arnold <seth.arnold () canonical com> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 02, 2022 at 03:55:07AM +0000, Jedidiah Cunningham wrote:
> > In Apache Airflow prior to 2.3.4, an insecure umask was configured for
> numerous Airflow components when running with the  `--deamon` flag which
> could result in a race condition giving world-writable files in the Airflow
> home directory and allowing local users to expose arbitrary file contents
> via the webserver.
>
> Hello Jedidiah,
>
> Thanks for contributing to the oss-security list; I believe your
> contributions would be far more valuable if they included some further
> details -- providing links to issues and commits is common, but you could
> also include the details in the email if that's easier for whatever reason.
>
> Thanks