GHSA-fcmm-42r9-mmmmMediumCVSS 5.4

Apache Airflow XCom API permits unsafe deserialization through JSON string literals

Published
August 12, 2026
Last Modified
October 2, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

Apache Airflow's XCom GET /api/v2/{...}/xcomEntries/{key}?deserialize=true endpoint passed a string-literal payload through BaseXCom.deserialize_value without the _check_forbidden_xcom_keys guard, allowing an authenticated API user with XCom write-and-read access to instantiate arbitrary airflow.* classes on the API server (CWE-502). An authenticated user who can write an XCom value and then read it back with deserialize=true triggers the unsafe instantiation. Users are advised to upgrade to apache-airflow 3.3.1 or later, which rejects reserved XCom serialization keys submitted as JSON string literals.

🎯 Affected products1

  • pip/apache-airflow:< 3.3.1

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