GHSA-89cj-xrpx-j79mMediumCVSS 6.5

Apache Airflow has a Link Following issue

Published
June 1, 2026
Last Modified
July 9, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

A Dag author could either (a) create a symlink under their task's log directory pointing to an arbitrary file readable by the API server process (read-path attack — e.g. /etc/passwd or airflow.cfg) or (b) supply a task_id containing .. sequences accepted by the Task SDK's KEY_REGEX (write-path attack), and in both cases the FileTaskHandler resolves the log path outside the configured base_log_folder, leaking or overwriting arbitrary files. Only affects deployments where the worker log folder is shared with the API server. Users are advised to upgrade to apache-airflow 3.2.2 or later. As a defense-in-depth mitigation, deploy the worker and API server with separate log volumes so that worker-controlled paths cannot reach the API server's filesystem.

🎯 Affected products1

  • pip/apache-airflow:< 3.2.2

🔗 References (6)