GitHub Advisoryadvisory · PyPI

GHSA-95v7-h9j5-gvjr Apache Airflow has a Sensitive Cookie in HTTPS Session Without 'Secure' Attribute

MEDIUM Published 2026-06-01 Modified 2026-07-09 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2026-41017
Ecosystem
PyPI
Packages
apache-airflow
Severity
Moderate
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-614
Reviewed
2026-07-09

Affected packages

• PyPI apache-airflow: >= 3.0.0, < 3.2.2 → fixed in 3.2.2

Description

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 cloud-native topology) would have the user's session JWT replayed over any cleartext HTTP request to the same host. A network-positioned attacker (Wi-Fi MITM, hostile LAN, captive-portal proxy) could induce a logged-in user's browser to issue an HTTP request to the deployment's hostname and capture the JWT cookie out of that request, then replay it against the authenticated API. Affects deployments where the Airflow API server is reached through a TLS-terminating proxy and the cookie's secure-by-default protection is load-bearing for session integrity. Users are advised to upgrade to `apache-airflow` 3.2.2 or later.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2026-41017 Apache Airflow's `JWTRefreshMiddleware` set the JWT auth cookie without the `Secure` flag, so deployments running the Airflow API server… vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-614 Sensitive Cookie in HTTPS Session Without 'Secure' Attribute weakness

References