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CVE-2023-50943PYSEC-2024-13BIT-AIRFLOW-2023-50943GHSA-C3C6-F2WW-XFR2

Apache Airflow: Potential pickle deserialization vulnerability in XComs

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Low (apache)
Fix
Fixed in 2.8.1, 2.8.1rc1
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: yes
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

Apache Airflow, versions before 2.8.1, have a vulnerability that allows a potential attacker to poison the XCom data by bypassing the protection of "enable_xcom_pickling=False" configuration setting resulting in poisoned data after XCom deserialization. This vulnerability is considered low since it requires a DAG author to exploit it. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.8.1 or later, which fixes this issue.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • apache-airflow

    fixed in 2.8.1

  • apache-airflowPyPI

    fixed in 2.8.1

  • apache-airflowPyPI

    fixed in 2.8.1rc1

References 3

GitHub · apache/airflow

lists.apache.org

openwall.com