CVE-2026-25917

Description

Dag Authors, who normally should not be able to execute code in the webserver context could craft XCom payload causing the webserver to execute arbitrary code. Since Dag Authors are already highly trusted, severity of this issue is Low. Users are recommended to upgrade to Apache Airflow 3.2.0, which fixes the issue.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2026-02-09 | Published 2026-04-18 | Updated 2026-04-22 | Assigner apache

Problem types

CWE-502: Deserialization of Untrusted Data

Product status

Credits

Mahammad Huseynkhanli finder

Amogh Desai remediation developer

References

www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/04/17/9

github.com/apache/airflow/pull/61641 (Apache Airflow PR #61641 (fix)) patch

lists.apache.org/thread/6whgpkqbh12rvpfmvcg8b0vwlv4hq3po vendor-advisory

cve.org (CVE-2026-25917)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2026-25917)

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