{"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 — 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."}],"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 — 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."}],"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"}}]}}