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.
Source: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-17511
Reference (s):
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ree782a29d927b96bf0b39fb92e2f1f09ea3112a985f7a08ce93765ac%40%3Cusers.airflow.apache.org%3E
- URL: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ree782a29d927b96bf0b39fb92e2f1f09ea3112a985f7a08ce93765ac%40%3Cusers.airflow.apache.org%3E