CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-82311
9.8 CRITICAL
Official page ↗
- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2026-09-16
- Last modified
- 2026-09-18
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-613
Description
Apache Airflow FAB provider: resetting a user's password does not delete that user's existing database-backed sessions, despite documented behaviour that it does. The cleanup compares the string identifier Flask-Login stores in the session against the user's integer database identifier, so the comparison never matches and no session is removed. An attacker who already holds a copy of the victim's session cookie keeps access as that user after the password change, so the reset does not evict them.
Affects deployments using the FAB auth manager with `[fab] session_backend=database`. The trigger is an administrator (or the user) running the supported password-reset command as a containment action after a session cookie has been compromised; the secure-cookie backend is out of scope, as it documents that it cannot centrally delete sessions.
apache-airflow-providers-fab 3.9.0 also fixes CVE-2026-86462, a second, independent route to the same outcome via the Admin user-edit endpoint; a single upgrade closes both.
Users of apache-airflow-providers-fab are recommended to upgrade to version 3.9.0 or later, which compares the identifiers consistently.
Affected configurations
• apache apache-airflow-providers-fab (>= 2.4.2 < 3.9.0)
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/72198 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.apache.org/thread/mmplwl93shy615shkpp9p4fzyjvr4yqw Mailing List, Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.apache.org/thread/[email protected] Mailing List
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-86462 Third Party Advisory