- Exploited
- No known exploitation
- Fix
- Fixed in 3.4.0
- Who is exposed
- Not reported
Do first: Upgrade to a fixed version: 3.4.0.
- Last modified
- A 0-100 score for how much a CVE matters across the industry: exploitation, exposure, how widely the software is used, severity and whether a fix exists.What do these mean? →
- 12/100 · provisional
- Whether working attack code is public (Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei or GitHub). Public code makes attacks easier.What do these mean? →
- None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
Summary
Apache Airflow's CeleryExecutor runs callback workloads without checking their authentication token, so anyone who can write to the Celery broker can queue a forged callback and run arbitrary code on every CeleryExecutor worker, without Airflow credentials. Only deployments that use the CeleryExecutor are affected.
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Read the original description
Apache Airflow's CeleryExecutor ran callback workloads (ExecuteCallback, used for deadline-alert callbacks) without validating the workload's authentication token. Anyone able to write to the Celery broker could enqueue a forged callback and execute arbitrary code on every CeleryExecutor worker, without Airflow credentials. Deployments using the CeleryExecutor are affected.
Users are advised to upgrade to apache-airflow 3.4.0 or later, in which the worker claims the callback through the Execution API, validating the token, before running it.
cve.now Index
- Exploitation?/40Unknown. No CISA SSVC exploitation rating yet
- Exposure?/25Unknown. No advisory context yet
- Reach12/20apache-airflow-core: 647K downloads a week
- Severity?/10Unknown. No CVSS score or vendor rating
- No patch0/5No signal
What would change the score
- Would score about 67 if added to CISA KEV
- Would score about 62 if CISA's SSVC rates exploitation active
- Would score about 34 if advisories confirm default setups are exposed
Impact
- Widely used
apache-airflow-core has 647k weekly downloads.Source: pypistats.org
473 packages depend on apache-airflow-core.Source: deps.dev
What to do
Upgrade to a fixed version: 3.4.0.
Timeline
- CVE published
- First seen by cve.now
- Record last updated
Affected versions
fixed in 3.4.0
Fixed in 3.4.0 (released Nov 6, 2026, 3 days before disclosure).
The latest release, 3.4.0, is not affected.
Evidence 4
- Advisory
- Patch
- Patch
- Link
Corrections
None so far.
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Questions about CVE-2026-68982
Is CVE-2026-68982 being exploited?
It is not in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, and CISA's SSVC assessment does not mark exploitation as active. That does not mean it has not been attacked: vendors and researchers can report attacks before CISA lists them. No public exploit code is tracked.Source: cve.now feed data
Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-68982?
apache-airflow-core (PyPI): before 3.4.0.Source: cve.now feed data
How do I fix CVE-2026-68982?
Upgrade to a fixed version: 3.4.0.Source: cve.now feed data