Public vulnerability disclosure

CVE-2026-68971

Apache Airflow: Cross-team authorization bypass in the asset materialization and dag-run result endpoints

publishedCWE-862

Apache Airflow's asset materialization endpoint (`POST /api/v2/assets/{asset_id}/materialize`) and the XCom result check on `wait_dag_run_until_finished` authorized the target Dag without its team, unlike every other authorization site. A team-aware auth manager distinguishes a team-scoped Dag from a global one by that field -- the Keycloak auth manager, for example, checks the `DAG` resource instead of `DAG:<team>` -- so the team-scoped permission that should gate the request was never consulted. In a deployment running multi-team mode with a team-aware auth manager, an authenticated user in one team could trigger Dag runs belonging to another team, supplying their own `dag_run_id` and `conf`, and could read another team's XCom values. Deployments using the FAB auth manager are unaffected, as it has no multi-team support. Users are advised to upgrade to apache-airflow 3.3.1 or later, which resolves the Dag's team at both sites.

Technical severity6.5 mediumCVSS 3.1 · ADP: CISA-ADP
Published2026-08-12Source updated 2026-11-03
Collected2026-11-032 attributed sources

Fixes and workarounds

Fix

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Source: CNA: apache

Affected products and versions

Affected products, source version ranges and reporting authorities
ProductVersionsAuthority
Apache Airflow
Apache Software Foundation
apache-airflow
pypi
≥ 0; < 3.0.0 (affected, semver)
Other versions: unaffected
CNA: apache
Apache Airflow
Apache Software Foundation
apache-airflow-core
pypi
≥ 3.0.0; < 3.3.1 (affected, semver)
Other versions: unaffected
CNA: apache

Version ranges are source assertions. Check the vendor advisory and your installed configuration before determining exposure.

CVSS assessments

CVSS scores, vectors and reporting authorities
Version / scoreVectorAuthority
3.1 / 6.5
medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NADP: CISA-ADP

Exploit evidence

No exploit evidence in collected sources. This is not proof of no exploitation.

References

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