Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb
Published
2026-08-17 05:39
Modified
2026-09-08 08:34
Summary
Apache Airflow: Cross-team authorization bypass in the asset materialization and dag-run result endpoints
Details

Apache Airflow's asset materialization endpoint (POST /api/v2/assets/{asset_id}/materialize) and the XCom result check on wait_dag_run_until_finished authorized the target Dag without its team, unlike every other authorization site. A team-aware auth manager distinguishes a team-scoped Dag from a global one by that field -- the Keycloak auth manager, for example, checks the DAG resource instead of DAG:<team> -- so the team-scoped permission that should gate the request was never consulted. In a deployment running multi-team mode with a team-aware auth manager, an authenticated user in one team could trigger Dag runs belonging to another team, supplying their own dag_run_id and conf, and could read another team's XCom values. Deployments using the FAB auth manager are unaffected, as it has no multi-team support. Users are advised to upgrade to apache-airflow 3.3.1 or later, which resolves the Dag's team at both sites.


{
  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Bitnami",
        "name": "airflow",
        "purl": "pkg:bitnami/airflow"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "3.3.1"
            }
          ],
          "type": "SEMVER"
        }
      ],
      "severity": [
        {
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N",
          "type": "CVSS_V3"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2026-68971"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cpes": [
      "cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
    ],
    "severity": "Medium"
  },
  "details": "Apache Airflow\u0027s asset materialization endpoint (`POST /api/v2/assets/{asset_id}/materialize`) and the XCom result check on `wait_dag_run_until_finished` authorized the target Dag without its team, unlike every other authorization site. A team-aware auth manager distinguishes a team-scoped Dag from a global one by that field -- the Keycloak auth manager, for example, checks the `DAG` resource instead of `DAG:\u003cteam\u003e` -- so the team-scoped permission that should gate the request was never consulted. In a deployment running multi-team mode with a team-aware auth manager, an authenticated user in one team could trigger Dag runs belonging to another team, supplying their own `dag_run_id` and `conf`, and could read another team\u0027s XCom values. Deployments using the FAB auth manager are unaffected, as it has no multi-team support. Users are advised to upgrade to apache-airflow 3.3.1 or later, which resolves the Dag\u0027s team at both sites.",
  "id": "BIT-airflow-2026-68971",
  "modified": "2026-09-08T08:34:36.952Z",
  "published": "2026-08-17T05:39:33.053Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "DISCUSSION",
      "url": "http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/08/12/15"
    },
    {
      "type": "FIX",
      "url": "https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/70893"
    },
    {
      "type": "DISCUSSION",
      "url": "https://lists.apache.org/thread/kfxqqwgojdjdnt6bxg3ord4y41y334fo"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-68971"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.6.2",
  "summary": "Apache Airflow: Cross-team authorization bypass in the asset materialization and dag-run result endpoints"
}



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