Description
Apache Airflow is an open-source workflow management platform for data engineering pipelines.
Acunetix determined that it was possible to access Airflow's airflow.cfg without authentication.
Airflow is designed to be accessed by trusted clients inside trusted environments. It's not recommended to have it publicly accessible.
Remediation
Set "expose_config" to "False" in the settings file
References
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