GHSA-2943-9672-r45wCriticalCVSS 9.8

Apache Airflow allows code execution through unsafe serialized DAG deserialization

Published
July 7, 2026
Last Modified
September 4, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

A bug in BaseSerialization.deserialize() allowed unrestricted import_string() of attacker-controlled class paths when the Scheduler / API Server loaded a serialized DAG: a DAG author could embed a malicious trigger into a DAG to gain remote code execution on the API Server / Scheduler process, crossing the Airflow security boundary that DAG-author code must never execute in those processes. Users are advised to upgrade to apache-airflow 3.3.0 or later. As a defense-in-depth mitigation, deployments where DAG-author trust is limited can restrict the [core] allowed_deserialization_classes config to a narrow allowlist.

🎯 Affected products1

  • pip/apache-airflow:< 3.3.0

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