CVE-2026-49298 (GCVE-0-2026-49298)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-06-01 07:34 – Updated: 2026-06-02 16:43
VLAI
Title
Apache Airflow: JWT Token Exposure in KubernetesExecutor Command-Line Arguments
Summary
A bug in Apache Airflow's KubernetesExecutor caused JWT tokens used by worker pods to authenticate against the Execution API to be passed to the worker container as command-line arguments visible in the pod spec. An authenticated UI/API user with Kubernetes read-only access to the cluster (e.g. `pods/get` in the Airflow namespace) could harvest the JWT from `kubectl describe pod` output and then call state-mutating Execution API endpoints — triggering Dag runs, clearing runs, reading or writing Variables / Connections / XComs — as if they were a running task. Affects deployments using the `KubernetesExecutor`. Users are advised to upgrade to `apache-airflow` 3.2.2 or later. This is the airflow-core half of the same vulnerability addressed by [CVE-2026-27173](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-27173), which shipped the apache-airflow-providers-cncf-kubernetes side of the fix. Deployments that already upgraded `apache-airflow-providers-cncf-kubernetes` to 10.17.0 or later per the CVE-2026-27173 advisory should additionally upgrade `apache-airflow` to 3.2.2 or later to close the core-side surface — the two fixes are complementary, not duplicates.
Severity
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-538 - Insertion of Sensitive Information into Externally-Accessible File or Directory
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Apache Software Foundation Apache Airflow Affected: 0 , < 3.2.2 (semver)
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Credits
Nikolai Dvoinishnikov (nikdvy@gmail.com) Anton Kuznetsov (piratusxp@gmail.com) Anish Giri
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