# CVE-2026-111422: Apache Airflow SSH provider: SSHRemoteJobOperator: \`environment\` values are executed as shell on the remote host

- Also known as: EUVD-2026-110536, GHSA-V5M9-M7PG-Q8F3
- Severity: CVSS 8.8 (High), CISA-ADP
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- apache rates this low
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 7.0.1
- Published: 2026-10-26 · Updated: 2026-10-29

## Summary

The Apache Airflow SSH provider (apache-airflow-providers-ssh), specifically its SSHRemoteJobOperator, is affected. A user who can trigger a Dag, but not write Dag code, could execute arbitrary commands on the remote SSH host as the connection's user by supplying crafted values for the environment parameter.

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## Affected

- apache-airflow-providers-ssh: from 4.3.0, fixed in 7.0.1

## Description

In apache-airflow-providers-ssh before 7.0.1, SSHRemoteJobOperator quoted the values of its templated `environment` parameter only once, although they are placed inside an already-quoted wrapper script, so shell syntax such as `$(...)` in a value was executed on the remote SSH host. In a Dag that passes trigger-time input such as `params` or `dag_run.conf` into `environment`, a user who can trigger that Dag but cannot author Dags could run arbitrary commands on the remote host as the SSH connection's user. Users are advised to upgrade apache-airflow-providers-ssh to 7.0.1 or later.

## What to do

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## References

- https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/74810
- https://lists.apache.org/thread/k159xrq1tbgmkvl24j63g12qh0mczk79
- https://airflow.apache.org/docs/apache-airflow-providers-ssh/7.0.1/changelog.html

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