CVE-2026-67587 PUBLISHED

Apache Airflow: DAG-author remote code execution on the Scheduler via a Serde `Callback` deserialization gadget

Assigner: apache
Reserved: 29.07.2026 Published: 12.08.2026 Updated: 12.08.2026

Apache Airflow's Task SDK rebuilt a Callback object from serialized data by re-running its constructor, which imports the module named by the stored callback path. Because SyncCallback is itself an Airflow class it passes the default allowed_deserialization_classes allow-list, so tightening that setting does not help. A Dag author — who controls a task instance's next_kwargs through the task execution API — can therefore cause an arbitrary module to be imported inside the scheduler process, when the scheduler's awaiting_input timeout sweep deserializes that value. No non-default configuration is required; the sweep runs unconditionally. Versions before 3.3.0 are not affected: the class existed, but the scheduler sweep that reaches it did not. This is a separate code path from CVE-2026-58076 and CVE-2026-67260, which cover different gadgets reaching deserialization — applying either of those fixes does not address this one. Users are advised to upgrade to apache-airflow 3.3.1 or later.

Product Status

Vendor Apache Software Foundation
Product Apache Airflow
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 3.3.0 to 3.3.1 (excl.)

Credits

  • Nguyen Van Hiep (@hypnguyen1209), MBBank finder
  • Jarek Potiuk remediation developer

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-502: Deserialization of Untrusted Data CWE