# CVE-2026-75156: Apache Airflow FAB provider: FAB Azure AD OAuth: id\_token issuer/audience not validated — cross-tenant authentication bypass

- Severity: CVSS 9.1 (Critical), CISA-ADP
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 3.8.1
- Published: 2026-09-08 · Updated: 2026-09-16

## Affected

- apache-airflow-providers-fab: from 3.7.3, fixed in 3.8.1

## Description

Apache Airflow FAB provider versions 3.7.3 through 3.8.0 do not validate the issuer or audience of Azure AD `id_token`s during OAuth login. Deployments are affected only when the FAB auth manager is configured with Azure AD as an OAuth provider. Because the signing keys are fetched from Microsoft's **multi-tenant** JWKS endpoint, an `id_token` minted in *any* Azure tenant — including one the attacker creates — passes signature verification, and the username and role assignments are then read from that attacker-controlled token. Anyone able to register an Azure tenant can therefore authenticate to the Airflow UI with no prior access to the deployment. The fix for **CVE-2026-59243** was incomplete, and this advisory closes the remaining gap: that fix made the provider verify the `id_token` signature, but did not add issuer or audience checks. Operators who already applied the CVE-2026-59243 fix are **still affected and must upgrade again** — 3.7.3 is the release that shipped that fix, so every version containing it falls inside this affected range. Upgrade to apache-airflow-providers-fab `3.8.1` or later.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on apache-airflow-providers-fab, upgrade to a fixed version (3.8.1) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/71735
- https://lists.apache.org/thread/n3l6z4jfdxj4p0t8l7m6olkq6xsc6f76
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-59243

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