apache/airflow · Security
Apache Airflow has a Link Following issue
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-89cj-xrpx-j79m
- CVE ID
- CVE-2026-40861
- Severity
- medium
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 6.5 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CVSS v3
- 6.5 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Description
A Dag author could either (a) create a symlink under their task's log directory pointing to an arbitrary file readable by the API server process (read-path attack — e.g. /etc/passwd or airflow.cfg) or (b) supply a task_id containing .. sequences accepted by the Task SDK's KEY_REGEX (write-path attack), and in both cases the FileTaskHandler resolves the log path outside the configured base_log_folder, leaking or overwriting arbitrary files. Only affects deployments where the worker log folder is shared with the API server. Users are advised to upgrade to apache-airflow 3.2.2 or later. As a defense-in-depth mitigation, deploy the worker and API server with separate log volumes so that worker-controlled paths cannot reach the API server's filesystem.
CWEs
- CWE-59 · Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-40861 ↗
- https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/65325 ↗
- https://lists.apache.org/thread/823334db2559xjlwt59gpzjz47thnscl ↗
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/05/31/1 ↗
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/apache-airflow/PYSEC-2026-181.yaml ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-89cj-xrpx-j79m ↗