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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.","severity":{"version":"3.1","score":8.8,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"high","assessor":"adp","from":"cve"},"epss":{"day":"2026-11-11","score":0.00489,"percentile":0.4253,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":true},"cwes":["CWE-538"],"published":"2026-06-01T07:34:32Z","modified":"2026-11-04T02:47:39Z","fixes":[{"ecosystem":"PyPI","package":"apache-airflow-core","fixed_in":["3.2.2"],"sources":["ghsa","osv"]},{"ecosystem":"Bitnami","package":"airflow","fixed_in":["3.2.2"],"sources":["osv"]}],"affected":[{"source":"ghsa","ecosystem":"PyPI","package":"apache-airflow-core","ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"3.2.2"}]}]},{"source":"osv","ecosystem":"Bitnami","package":"airflow","ranges":[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"3.2.2"}]}]},{"source":"osv","ecosystem":"PyPI","package":"apache-airflow-core","ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"3.2.2"}]}],"versions":["3.0.0","3.0.0rc1","3.0.0rc1.post1","3.0.0rc1.post2","3.0.0rc1.post3","3.0.0rc1.post4","3.0.0rc2","3.0.0rc3","3.0.0rc4","3.0.1","3.0.1rc1","3.0.2","3.0.2rc1","3.0.2rc2","3.0.3","3.0.3rc1","3.0.3rc2","3.0.3rc3","3.0.3rc4","3.0.3rc5","3.0.3rc6","3.0.4","3.0.4rc1","3.0.4rc2","3.0.5","3.0.5rc1","3.0.5rc2","3.0.5rc3","3.0.6","3.0.6rc1","3.0.6rc2","3.1.0","3.1.0b1","3.1.0b2","3.1.0rc1","3.1.0rc2","3.1.1","3.1.1rc1","3.1.1rc2","3.1.2","3.1.2rc1","3.1.2rc2","3.1.3","3.1.3rc1","3.1.4","3.1.4rc1","3.1.4rc2","3.1.5","3.1.5rc1","3.1.6","3.1.6rc1","3.1.7","3.1.7rc1","3.1.7rc2","3.1.8","3.1.8rc1","3.1.8rc2","3.2.0","3.2.0b1","3.2.0b2","3.2.0rc1","3.2.0rc2","3.2.1","3.2.1rc1","3.2.1rc2","3.2.1rc3","3.2.2rc1","3.2.2rc2","3.2.2rc3"]},{"source":"osv","ecosystem":"PyPI","package":"apache-airflow-core","ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"3.2.2"}]}],"versions":["3.0.0","3.0.0rc1","3.0.0rc1.post1","3.0.0rc1.post2","3.0.0rc1.post3","3.0.0rc1.post4","3.0.0rc2","3.0.0rc3","3.0.0rc4","3.0.1","3.0.1rc1","3.0.2","3.0.2rc1","3.0.2rc2","3.0.3","3.0.3rc1","3.0.3rc2","3.0.3rc3","3.0.3rc4","3.0.3rc5","3.0.3rc6","3.0.4","3.0.4rc1","3.0.4rc2","3.0.5","3.0.5rc1","3.0.5rc2","3.0.5rc3","3.0.6","3.0.6rc1","3.0.6rc2","3.1.0","3.1.0b1","3.1.0b2","3.1.0rc1","3.1.0rc2","3.1.1","3.1.1rc1","3.1.1rc2","3.1.2","3.1.2rc1","3.1.2rc2","3.1.3","3.1.3rc1","3.1.4","3.1.4rc1","3.1.4rc2","3.1.5","3.1.5rc1","3.1.6","3.1.6rc1","3.1.7","3.1.7rc1","3.1.7rc2","3.1.8","3.1.8rc1","3.1.8rc2","3.2.0","3.2.0b1","3.2.0b2","3.2.0rc1","3.2.0rc2","3.2.1","3.2.1rc1","3.2.1rc2","3.2.1rc3","3.2.2rc1","3.2.2rc2","3.2.2rc3"]}],"products":[{"vendor":"apache","product":"airflow"},{"vendor":"apache software foundation","product":"apache airflow"}],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/60108","tags":["patch","Issue Tracking","Patch","fix","web"]},{"url":"https://lists.apache.org/thread/wo09vrks8189dzsot39rvrx3vnx102tt","tags":["vendor-advisory","Mailing List","Vendor Advisory","advisory","web"]},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-49298","tags":["web","advisory"]},{"url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-5j6p-jrrm-6x94","tags":["advisory"]},{"url":"https://pypi.python.org","tags":["web"]},{"url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/49xxx/CVE-2026-49298.json","tags":["advisory"]},{"url":"https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull","tags":["web"]},{"url":"https://pypi.org/project/apache-airflow-core","tags":["package"]}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2026-49298","title":"Apache Airflow: JWT Token Exposure in KubernetesExecutor Command-Line Arguments","description":"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.","status":"published","published":"2026-06-01T07:34:32.229Z","modified":"2026-11-03T06:49:48.654Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":8.8,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"high","assessor":"adp"}],"cwes":["CWE-538"],"updated_at":"2026-11-03T07:42:18.253008Z"}],"euvd":[{"id":"EUVD-2026-33580","description":"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. 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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.","status":"published","published":"2026-06-01T07:34:32Z","modified":"2026-11-03T06:49:48Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":8.8,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"high"}],"updated_at":"2026-11-03T08:50:00.381029Z"}],"ghsa":[{"id":"GHSA-5j6p-jrrm-6x94","title":"Apache Airflow: Execution API JWT leaked via KubernetesExecutor worker command-line args","description":"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.","status":"published","published":"2026-06-01T09:31:15Z","modified":"2026-07-08T19:45:02Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":8.8,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"high"}],"cwes":["CWE-538"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:40:41.501474Z"}],"nvd":[{"id":"CVE-2026-49298","description":"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. 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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.","status":"published","published":"2026-06-01T09:16:20.77Z","modified":"2026-11-03T07:20:55.103Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":8.8,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"high","assessor":"secondary"}],"cwes":["CWE-538"],"updated_at":"2026-11-03T11:52:48.71003Z"}],"osv":[{"id":"CVE-2026-49298","title":"Apache Airflow: JWT Token Exposure in KubernetesExecutor Command-Line Arguments","description":"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. 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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.","status":"published","published":"2026-06-01T07:34:32.229Z","modified":"2026-11-04T02:47:39.3757865Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":8.8,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"high"}],"cwes":["CWE-538"],"updated_at":"2026-11-04T02:53:45.692342Z"},{"id":"GHSA-5j6p-jrrm-6x94","title":"Apache Airflow: Execution API JWT leaked via KubernetesExecutor worker command-line args","description":"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.","status":"published","published":"2026-06-01T09:31:15Z","modified":"2026-07-13T16:43:49.99156847Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":8.8,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"high"}],"cwes":["CWE-538"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:46:38.553953Z"},{"id":"PYSEC-2026-2358","title":"Apache Airflow: Execution API JWT leaked via KubernetesExecutor worker command-line args","description":"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. 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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.","status":"published","published":"2026-07-13T15:35:23.107476Z","modified":"2026-07-13T16:43:49.99156847Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":8.8,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"high"}],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:52:55.961245Z"},{"id":"BIT-airflow-2026-49298","title":"Apache Airflow: JWT Token Exposure in KubernetesExecutor Command-Line Arguments","description":"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.","status":"published","published":"2026-06-05T05:40:52.457Z","modified":"2026-09-08T08:45:27.83481442Z","updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:28:28.267217Z"}]}}