{"dataType":"CVE_RECORD","dataVersion":"5.2","cveMetadata":{"cveId":"CVE-2026-68982","assignerOrgId":"f0158376-9dc2-43b6-827c-5f631a4d8d09","state":"PUBLISHED","assignerShortName":"apache","dateReserved":"2026-08-02T00:09:01.550Z","datePublished":"2026-11-09T09:55:00.238Z","dateUpdated":"2026-11-09T13:05:04.432Z"},"containers":{"cna":{"affected":[{"defaultStatus":"unaffected","packageURL":"pkg:pypi/apache-airflow-core","product":"Apache Airflow","vendor":"Apache Software Foundation","versions":[{"lessThan":"3.4.0","status":"affected","version":"0","versionType":"semver"}],"collectionURL":"https://pypi.python.org","packageName":"apache-airflow-core"}],"credits":[{"lang":"en","type":"finder","value":"Or Sahar (Reflectiz)"},{"lang":"en","type":"remediation developer","value":"Sean Ghaeli"}],"descriptions":[{"lang":"en","supportingMedia":[{"base64":false,"type":"text/html","value":"Apache Airflow's CeleryExecutor ran callback workloads (`ExecuteCallback`, used for deadline-alert callbacks) without validating the workload's authentication token. Anyone able to write to the Celery broker could enqueue a forged callback and execute arbitrary code on every CeleryExecutor worker, without Airflow credentials. Deployments using the CeleryExecutor are affected.<br><br>Users are advised to upgrade to apache-airflow 3.4.0 or later, in which the worker claims the callback through the Execution API, validating the token, before running it."}],"value":"Apache Airflow's CeleryExecutor ran callback workloads (`ExecuteCallback`, used for deadline-alert callbacks) without validating the workload's authentication token. Anyone able to write to the Celery broker could enqueue a forged callback and execute arbitrary code on every CeleryExecutor worker, without Airflow credentials. Deployments using the CeleryExecutor are affected.\n\nUsers are advised to upgrade to apache-airflow 3.4.0 or later, in which the worker claims the callback through the Execution API, validating the token, before running it."}],"metrics":[{"other":{"content":{"text":"important"},"type":"Textual description of severity"},"scenarios":[{"lang":"en","value":"GENERAL"}]}],"problemTypes":[{"descriptions":[{"cweId":"CWE-306","description":"CWE-306: Missing Authentication for Critical Function","lang":"en","type":"CWE"}]}],"providerMetadata":{"orgId":"f0158376-9dc2-43b6-827c-5f631a4d8d09","shortName":"apache","dateUpdated":"2026-11-09T13:05:04.432Z"},"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/71192","tags":["patch"]},{"url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-11981","tags":["related"]},{"url":"https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/7t514l87nhjworv2ns22b8ltxr1f7rhg","tags":["vendor-advisory"]}],"source":{"discovery":"EXTERNAL"},"title":"Apache Airflow: CeleryExecutor: forged callback workloads run on Celery workers without workload-token validation","x_generator":{"engine":"airflow-s/generate_cve_json.py"}}}}