CVE-2026-81914
Apache Airflow Google provider: Google Drive query injection via unescaped file and folder names
Apache Airflow's Google provider built Google Drive search expressions by interpolating file and folder names directly into single-quoted string literals, without escaping the quote character that delimits them. A name containing an apostrophe therefore terminated the literal early and appended clauses of the attacker's choosing to the query.
The names are frequently not written by the Dag author. In a wildcard gcs_to_gdrive transfer they come from the source bucket listing, so anyone able to create objects in that bucket controls them — typically an external data producer or an ingest-only service account, a different trust principal from the Dag author. An injected clause can broaden the match and so steer which file or folder the hook resolves: an upload can be directed into a folder the attacker named, and, because downloads select the most recently modified match, a download can return a file they placed rather than the one the Dag asked for.
Affects deployments passing externally-sourced names to the Google Drive hook, including wildcard gcs_to_gdrive transfers from buckets writable by less-trusted principals. Users are advised to upgrade to apache-airflow-providers-google 22.6.0 or later, which escapes quote and backslash characters in every value interpolated into a Drive query.
Attack profile
How easy it is to exploit
- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- Low
- User interaction
- None
What an attacker can affect
- Confidentiality
- Low
- Integrity
- None
- Availability
- None
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
CVE List Score used
4.3
Apache Airflow Google provider: Google Drive query injection via unescaped file and folder names
Apache Airflow's Google provider built Google Drive search expressions by interpolating file and folder names directly into single-quoted string literals, without escaping the quote character that delimits them. A name containing an apostrophe therefore terminated the literal early and appended clauses of the attacker's choosing to the query.
The names are frequently not written by the Dag author. In a wildcard gcs_to_gdrive transfer they come from the source bucket listing, so anyone able to create objects in that bucket controls them — typically an external data producer or an ingest-only service account, a different trust principal from the Dag author. An injected clause can broaden the match and so steer which file or folder the hook resolves: an upload can be directed into a folder the attacker named, and, because downloads select the most recently modified match, a download can return a file they placed rather than the one the Dag asked for.
Affects deployments passing externally-sourced names to the Google Drive hook, including wildcard gcs_to_gdrive transfers from buckets writable by less-trusted principals. Users are advised to upgrade to apache-airflow-providers-google 22.6.0 or later, which escapes quote and backslash characters in every value interpolated into a Drive query.
- Record
CVE-2026-81914- CVSS 3.1
- 4.3 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-943
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2026-88694
4.3
Apache Airflow's Google provider built Google Drive search expressions by interpolating file and folder names directly into single-quoted string literals, without escaping the quote character that delimits them. A name containing an apostrophe therefore terminated the literal early and appended clauses of the attacker's choosing to the query.
The names are frequently not written by the Dag author. In a wildcard gcs_to_gdrive transfer they come from the source bucket listing, so anyone able to create objects in that bucket controls them — typically an external data producer or an ingest-only service account, a different trust principal from the Dag author. An injected clause can broaden the match and so steer which file or folder the hook resolves: an upload can be directed into a folder the attacker named, and, because downloads select the most recently modified match, a download can return a file they placed rather than the one the Dag asked for.
Affects deployments passing externally-sourced names to the Google Drive hook, including wildcard gcs_to_gdrive transfers from buckets writable by less-trusted principals. Users are advised to upgrade to apache-airflow-providers-google 22.6.0 or later, which escapes quote and backslash characters in every value interpolated into a Drive query.
- Record
EUVD-2026-88694- CVSS 3.1
- 4.3 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N - Updated
- 2026-11-02
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-g995-5p95-2fw6
4.3
Apache Airflow's Google provider built Google Drive search expressions by interpolating file and...
Apache Airflow's Google provider built Google Drive search expressions by interpolating file and folder names directly into single-quoted string literals, without escaping the quote character that delimits them. A name containing an apostrophe therefore terminated the literal early and appended clauses of the attacker's choosing to the query.
The names are frequently not written by the Dag author. In a wildcard gcs_to_gdrive transfer they come from the source bucket listing, so anyone able to create objects in that bucket controls them — typically an external data producer or an ingest-only service account, a different trust principal from the Dag author. An injected clause can broaden the match and so steer which file or folder the hook resolves: an upload can be directed into a folder the attacker named, and, because downloads select the most recently modified match, a download can return a file they placed rather than the one the Dag asked for.
Affects deployments passing externally-sourced names to the Google Drive hook, including wildcard gcs_to_gdrive transfers from buckets writable by less-trusted principals. Users are advised to upgrade to apache-airflow-providers-google 22.6.0 or later, which escapes quote and backslash characters in every value interpolated into a Drive query.
- Record
GHSA-g995-5p95-2fw6- CVSS 3.1
- 4.3 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-943
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
NVD
4.3
Apache Airflow's Google provider built Google Drive search expressions by interpolating file and folder names directly into single-quoted string literals, without escaping the quote character that delimits them. A name containing an apostrophe therefore terminated the literal early and appended clauses of the attacker's choosing to the query.
The names are frequently not written by the Dag author. In a wildcard gcs_to_gdrive transfer they come from the source bucket listing, so anyone able to create objects in that bucket controls them — typically an external data producer or an ingest-only service account, a different trust principal from the Dag author. An injected clause can broaden the match and so steer which file or folder the hook resolves: an upload can be directed into a folder the attacker named, and, because downloads select the most recently modified match, a download can return a file they placed rather than the one the Dag asked for.
Affects deployments passing externally-sourced names to the Google Drive hook, including wildcard gcs_to_gdrive transfers from buckets writable by less-trusted principals. Users are advised to upgrade to apache-airflow-providers-google 22.6.0 or later, which escapes quote and backslash characters in every value interpolated into a Drive query.
- Record
CVE-2026-81914- CVSS 3.1
- 4.3 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-943
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSV
4.3
Apache Airflow Google provider: Google Drive query injection via unescaped file and folder names
Apache Airflow's Google provider built Google Drive search expressions by interpolating file and folder names directly into single-quoted string literals, without escaping the quote character that delimits them. A name containing an apostrophe therefore terminated the literal early and appended clauses of the attacker's choosing to the query.
The names are frequently not written by the Dag author. In a wildcard gcs_to_gdrive transfer they come from the source bucket listing, so anyone able to create objects in that bucket controls them — typically an external data producer or an ingest-only service account, a different trust principal from the Dag author. An injected clause can broaden the match and so steer which file or folder the hook resolves: an upload can be directed into a folder the attacker named, and, because downloads select the most recently modified match, a download can return a file they placed rather than the one the Dag asked for.
Affects deployments passing externally-sourced names to the Google Drive hook, including wildcard gcs_to_gdrive transfers from buckets writable by less-trusted principals. Users are advised to upgrade to apache-airflow-providers-google 22.6.0 or later, which escapes quote and backslash characters in every value interpolated into a Drive query.
- Record
CVE-2026-81914- CVSS 3.1
- 4.3 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-943
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSVPYSEC-2026-4187
4.3
Apache Airflow's Google provider built Google Drive search expressions by interpolating file and folder names directly into single-quoted string literals, without escaping the quote character that delimits them. A name containing an apostrophe therefore terminated the literal early and appended clauses of the attacker's choosing to the query.
The names are frequently not written by the Dag author. In a wildcard gcs_to_gdrive transfer they come from the source bucket listing, so anyone able to create objects in that bucket controls them — typically an external data producer or an ingest-only service account, a different trust principal from the Dag author. An injected clause can broaden the match and so steer which file or folder the hook resolves: an upload can be directed into a folder the attacker named, and, because downloads select the most recently modified match, a download can return a file they placed rather than the one the Dag asked for.
Affects deployments passing externally-sourced names to the Google Drive hook, including wildcard gcs_to_gdrive transfers from buckets writable by less-trusted principals. Users are advised to upgrade to apache-airflow-providers-google 22.6.0 or later, which escapes quote and backslash characters in every value interpolated into a Drive query.
- Record
PYSEC-2026-4187- CVSS 3.1
- 4.3 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N - Updated
- 2026-11-02
Affected products
Affected packages
| Package | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|
apache-airflow-providers-googlePyPI |
before 22.6.0, plus listed versions 1.0.01.0.0b11.0.0b21.0.0rc110.0.0 Show 45 moreShow less10.0.0rc110.1.010.1.0rc110.1.0rc210.1.110.1.1rc110.10.010.10.0rc110.10.110.10.1rc110.11.010.11.0rc110.11.110.11.1rc110.12.010.12.0rc110.13.010.13.0rc110.13.0rc210.13.0rc310.13.110.13.1rc110.14.010.14.0rc110.14.0rc210.15.010.15.0rc110.16.010.16.0rc110.17.010.17.0rc110.18.010.18.0rc110.18.0rc210.19.010.19.0rc110.2.010.2.0rc110.20.010.20.0rc110.21.010.21.0rc110.21.110.21.1rc110.21.1rc2 |
22.6.0 |
History
| Recorded | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| first indexed | CVE List, EUVD, GitHub Advisories, NVD, OSV |
Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.
In short
CVE-2026-81914 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 4.3) in Apache Apache-airflow-providers-google, published September 29, 2026. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.47%, the 40th percentile. Fixed in apache-airflow-providers-google 22.6.0.
References
github.com/apache/airflow/pull/72166
lists.apache.org/thread/90osv795jrqds051y7v3lcdzhsospooo
openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/09/29/13
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-81914
github.com/advisories/GHSA-g995-5p95-2fw6
pypi.python.org
github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/81xxx/CVE-2026-81914.json
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