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 — triggering Dag runs, clearing runs, reading or writing Variables / Connections / XComs — 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 — the two fixes are complementary, not duplicates.
References
| Link | Resource |
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| https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/60108 | Issue Tracking Patch |
| https://lists.apache.org/thread/wo09vrks8189dzsot39rvrx3vnx102tt | Mailing List Vendor Advisory |
Configurations
History
03 Jun 2026, 02:06
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| CPE | cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | |
| First Time |
Apache
Apache airflow |
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| References | () https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/60108 - Issue Tracking, Patch | |
| References | () https://lists.apache.org/thread/wo09vrks8189dzsot39rvrx3vnx102tt - Mailing List, Vendor Advisory |
02 Jun 2026, 17:16
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v2 : unknown
v3 : 8.8 |
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| New CVE |
Information
Published : 2026-06-01 09:16
Updated : 2026-06-03 02:06
NVD link : CVE-2026-49298
Mitre link : CVE-2026-49298
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-49298
JSON object : View
Products Affected
apache
- airflow
CWE
CWE-538
Insertion of Sensitive Information into Externally-Accessible File or Directory
