apache/airflow · Security

Apache Airflow scheduler unsafely deserializes human-in-the-loop task next_kwargs

GHSA ID
GHSA-q4c3-7575-55j2
CVE ID
CVE-2026-67260
Severity
high
Published
Updated
CVSS
7.3 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CVSS v3
7.3 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Description

Apache Airflow 3.3.0 moved human-in-the-loop tasks from the triggerer to a new awaiting_input task state swept by the scheduler. That sweep deserializes the task instance's next_kwargs without an allow-list, so a Dag author — who controls that value through the task execution API — can cause an arbitrary module import and object instantiation inside the scheduler process, or terminate the scheduler job. No non-default configuration is required: the sweep runs unconditionally every 15 seconds, and the default allowed_deserialization_classes setting does not cover this code path. Versions before 3.3.0 are not affected, because human-in-the-loop tasks deferred onto the triggerer instead. This is a different code path from CVE-2026-58076, which covers the same unguarded exception-node deserialization reached elsewhere — deployments that applied that fix must upgrade for this issue as well. Users are advised to upgrade to apache-airflow 3.3.1 or later.

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