BIT-AIRFLOW-2026-40861 Apache Airflow: Arbitrary File Read via Log Symlink following in FileTaskHandler

A Dag author could either a create a symlink under their task's log directory pointing to an arbitrary file readable by the API server process read-path attack — e.g. /etc/passwd or airflow.cfg or b supply a taskid containing .. sequences accepted by the Task SDK's KEYREGEX write-path attack, and...

CVE-2026-42359

A bug in Apache Airflow's XCom PATCH endpoint PATCH /api/v2/xcomEntries/key allowed an authenticated UI/API user with XCom write permission on a Dag to set XCom entries under reserved key names e.g. returnvalue that the matching POST endpoint already validated against FORBIDDENXCOMKEYS. The...

CVE-2026-40961

A bug in the login redirect route in Apache Airflow allowed authenticated users to craft URLs that bypassed the issafeurl check, enabling redirection from a trusted Airflow domain to an attacker-controlled origin. Users are advised to upgrade to apache-airflow 3.2.2 or later. As a defense-in-dept...

CVE-2026-41017 Apache Airflow: JWT cookie missing Secure flag in JWTRefreshMiddleware behind HTTPS-terminating proxy

Apache Airflow's JWTRefreshMiddleware set the JWT auth cookie without the Secure flag, so deployments running the Airflow API server behind an HTTPS-terminating reverse proxy e.g. nginx / Envoy / a managed load balancer that terminates TLS and forwards plaintext to the API server, the default...