{"dataType": "CVE_RECORD", "dataVersion": "5.2", "cveMetadata": {"cveId": "CVE-2026-49298", "assignerOrgId": "f0158376-9dc2-43b6-827c-5f631a4d8d09", "state": "PUBLISHED", "assignerShortName": "apache", "dateReserved": "2026-05-28T21:14:03.813Z", "datePublished": "2026-06-01T07:34:32.229Z", "dateUpdated": "2026-06-02T16:43:36.658Z"}, "containers": {"cna": {"affected": [{"collectionURL": "https://pypi.python.org", "defaultStatus": "unaffected", "packageName": "apache-airflow", "product": "Apache Airflow", "vendor": "Apache Software Foundation", "versions": [{"lessThan": "3.2.2", "status": "affected", "version": "0", "versionType": "semver"}]}], "credits": [{"lang": "en", "type": "finder", "value": "Nikolai Dvoinishnikov (nikdvy@gmail.com)"}, {"lang": "en", "type": "finder", "value": "Anton Kuznetsov (piratusxp@gmail.com)"}, {"lang": "en", "type": "remediation developer", "value": "Anish Giri"}], "descriptions": [{"lang": "en", "supportingMedia": [{"base64": false, "type": "text/html", "value": "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 \u2014 triggering Dag runs, clearing runs, reading or writing Variables / Connections / XComs \u2014 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](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=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 \u2014 the two fixes are complementary, not duplicates."}], "value": "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 \u2014 triggering Dag runs, clearing runs, reading or writing Variables / Connections / XComs \u2014 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](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=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 \u2014 the two fixes are complementary, not duplicates."}], "metrics": [{"other": {"content": {"text": "Moderate"}, "type": "Textual description of severity"}}], "problemTypes": [{"descriptions": [{"cweId": "CWE-538", "description": "CWE-538: Insertion of Sensitive Information into Externally-Accessible File or Directory", "lang": "en", "type": "CWE"}]}], "providerMetadata": {"orgId": "f0158376-9dc2-43b6-827c-5f631a4d8d09", "shortName": "apache", "dateUpdated": "2026-06-01T07:34:32.229Z"}, "references": [{"tags": ["patch"], "url": "https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/60108"}, {"tags": ["vendor-advisory"], "url": "https://lists.apache.org/thread/wo09vrks8189dzsot39rvrx3vnx102tt"}], "source": {"discovery": "UNKNOWN"}, "title": "Apache Airflow: JWT Token Exposure in KubernetesExecutor Command-Line Arguments", "x_generator": {"engine": "airflow-s/generate_cve_json.py"}}, "adp": [{"metrics": [{"cvssV3_1": {"scope": "UNCHANGED", "version": "3.1", "baseScore": 8.8, "attackVector": "NETWORK", "baseSeverity": "HIGH", "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H", "integrityImpact": "HIGH", "userInteraction": "NONE", "attackComplexity": "LOW", "availabilityImpact": "HIGH", "privilegesRequired": "LOW", "confidentialityImpact": "HIGH"}}, {"other": {"type": "ssvc", "content": {"timestamp": "2026-06-02T15:56:22.010586Z", "id": "CVE-2026-49298", "options": [{"Exploitation": "none"}, {"Automatable": "no"}, {"Technical Impact": "total"}], "role": "CISA Coordinator", "version": "2.0.3"}}}], "title": "CISA ADP Vulnrichment", "providerMetadata": {"orgId": "134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0", "shortName": "CISA-ADP", "dateUpdated": "2026-06-02T16:43:36.658Z"}}]}}