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GHSA-fcmm-42r9-mmmm

Apache Airflow XCom API permits unsafe deserialization through JSON string literals

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Moderate CVE-2026-59242

Packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
PyPI apache-airflow < 3.3.1 3.3.1

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

Apache Airflow's XCom `GET /api/v2/{...}/xcomEntries/{key}?deserialize=true` endpoint passed a string-literal payload through `BaseXCom.deserialize_value` without the `_check_forbidden_xcom_keys` guard, allowing an authenticated API user with XCom write-and-read access to instantiate arbitrary `airflow.*` classes on the API server (CWE-502). An authenticated user who can write an XCom value and then read it back with `deserialize=true` triggers the unsafe instantiation. Users are advised to upgrade to apache-airflow 3.3.1 or later, which rejects reserved XCom serialization keys submitted as JSON string literals.

References

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