CVE-2026-49298

HIGHPre-NVD 8.88.8—
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

Score 8.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-06-01. CISA-ADP (Vulnrichment) CVSS v3.1 baseline 8.8; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: cisa-adp, epss, ghsa
8.8
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixSerious severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet.
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS: 0%CVSS: 8.8Exploit: NoneExposed: 0

No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.

A bug in Apache Airflow's KubernetesExecutor caused JWT tokens used by worker pods to authenticate against the Execution API to be passed to the worker container as command-line arguments visible in the pod spec. An authenticated UI/API user with Kubernetes read-only access to the cluster (e.g. pods/get in the Airflow namespace) could harvest the JWT from kubectl describe pod output and then call state-mutating Execution API endpoints — triggering Dag runs, clearing runs, reading or writing Variables / Connections / XComs — as if they were a running task. Affects deployments using the KubernetesExecutor. Users are advised to upgrade to apache-airflow 3.2.2 or later. This is the airflow-core half of the same vulnerability addressed by CVE-2026-27173, which shipped the apache-airflow-providers-cncf-kubernetes side of the fix. Deployments that already upgraded apache-airflow-providers-cncf-kubernetes to 10.17.0 or later per the CVE-2026-27173 advisory should additionally upgrade apache-airflow to 3.2.2 or later to close the core-side surface — the two fixes are complementary, not duplicates.

CVSS v3
8.8
EG Score
8.8(medium)
EPSS
39.2%
KEV
Not listed

Published

June 1, 2026

Last Modified

July 21, 2026

Advisory Details (2)

Auto-updated Jun 2, 2026
Upstream fix merged — awaiting tagged release. Sources: github_pr.
generic
https://lists.apache.org/thread/wo09vrks8189dzsot39rvrx3vnx102tt
github_pr

Two-token mechanism for task execution to prevent token expiration while tasks wait in executor queues

Fix merged in apache/airflow PR #60108 on 2026-04-23 — awaiting tagged release

https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/60108

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-49298(1)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Affected Packages

(1 across 1 ecosystem)
PyPI(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFixed inDependents
apache-airflow-core3.0.0 ... 3.2.2rc3 (69 versions)3.2.2—

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 8× in last 7d / 51× in last 30d)

Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 100 of 121 total refreshes for this CVE.

  1. 2026-07-22 14:08 UTCEPSS rescore
  2. 2026-07-21 15:25 UTCEPSS rescore
  3. 2026-07-20 17:08 UTCEPSS rescore
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  16. 2026-07-08 17:06 UTCGHSA enrichment
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  23. 2026-07-02 14:02 UTCGHSA enrichment
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  1. 2026-07-01 11:57 UTCGHSA enrichment
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  3. 2026-06-30 23:22 UTCEPSS rescore
  4. 2026-06-29 23:12 UTCGHSA enrichment
  5. 2026-06-29 14:06 UTCEPSS rescore
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  7. 2026-06-29 11:56 UTCGHSA enrichment
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  13. 2026-06-28 02:13 UTCGHSA enrichment
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  24. 2026-06-24 02:16 UTCGHSA enrichment
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  35. 2026-06-18 22:07 UTCGHSA enrichment
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  58. 2026-06-12 13:50 UTCGHSA enrichment
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  73. 2026-06-08 09:55 UTCGHSA enrichment
  74. 2026-06-07 22:50 UTCGHSA enrichment
  75. 2026-06-07 15:25 UTCEPSS rescore

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-49298?
CVE-2026-49298 is a high vulnerability published on June 1, 2026. A bug in Apache Airflow's KubernetesExecutor caused JWT tokens used by worker pods to authenticate against the Execution API to be passed to the worker container as command-line arguments visible in the pod spec. An authenticated UI/API user with Kubernetes read-only access to the cluster (e.g.…
When was CVE-2026-49298 disclosed?
CVE-2026-49298 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on June 1, 2026, with the most recent update on July 21, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2026-49298 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-49298 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 39.2% percentile likelihood of exploitation in the next 30 days — higher percentiles indicate greater predicted risk.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-49298?
CVE-2026-49298 has a CVSS v3.1 base score of 8.8 (CISA-ADP / Vulnrichment enrichment; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-49298?
Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2026-49298, EchelonGraph cross-links them in the Vendor Advisories panel below — those typically contain the canonical remediation steps, fixed version numbers, and any vendor-specific mitigations.

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