GitHub Advisoryadvisory · PyPI

GHSA-2qjv-p2gc-mjg2 Apache Airflow Task SDK Callback deserialization can import arbitrary modules in the scheduler

HIGH Published 2026-08-12 Modified 2026-10-02 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2026-67587
Ecosystem
PyPI
Packages
apache-airflow
Severity
High
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-502
Reviewed
2026-10-02

Affected packages

• PyPI apache-airflow: >= 3.3.0, < 3.3.1 → fixed in 3.3.1

Description

Apache Airflow's Task SDK rebuilt a `Callback` object from serialized data by re-running its constructor, which imports the module named by the stored callback path. Because `SyncCallback` is itself an Airflow class it passes the default `allowed_deserialization_classes` allow-list, so tightening that setting does not help. A Dag author — who controls a task instance's `next_kwargs` through the task execution API — can therefore cause an arbitrary module to be imported inside the scheduler process, when the scheduler's `awaiting_input` timeout sweep deserializes that value. No non-default configuration is required; the sweep runs unconditionally. Versions before 3.3.0 are not affected: the class existed, but the scheduler sweep that reaches it did not. This is a separate code path from CVE-2026-58076 and CVE-2026-67260, which cover different gadgets reaching deserialization — applying either of those fixes does not address this one. Users are advised to upgrade to apache-airflow 3.3.1 or later.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2026-67587 Apache Airflow's Task SDK rebuilt a `Callback` object from serialized data by re-running its constructor, which imports the module named by… vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-502 Deserialization of Untrusted Data weakness

References