CVE-2026-45360: Apache Airflow: Arbitrary import in custom deadline-reference deserialization
This Apache advisory covers CVE-2026-45360 in Apache Airflow.
- CVE-2026-45360
Key facts
- CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L· base score 7.3, scored by CISA-ADPAttack vector: network. Attack complexity: low. Privileges required: none. User interaction: none. Scope: unchanged. Confidentiality impact: low. Integrity impact: low. Availability impact: low.- Weakness
- CWE-502: Deserialization of Untrusted Data
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none observed. Automatable: yes. Technical impact: partial. CISA, .
- CISA KEV
- Not listed (catalogue checked )
- Affected
- Apache Airflow before 3.0.0; Apache Airflow 3.0.0 before 3.2.2
- Fixed in
- 3.0.0, 3.2.2
- Source published
- Source revised
- Listed by VulniPulse
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Affected products & platforms
Description
Apache Airflow's scheduler-side deadline-reference decoder (`SerializedCustomReference.deserialize_reference`) imported and dispatched arbitrary class paths drawn from DAG-author-controlled serialized state without an allowlist or plugin-registry gate.
A DAG author whose code reaches the scheduler — the default on single-host deployments where the DAG bundle is importable from the scheduler process — could embed a custom `DeadlineReference` whose serialized form named an attacker-controlled module path, causing the scheduler to `import_string(...)` and instantiate that class with a live SQLAlchemy session attached.
Affects deployments where DAG-author code is less trusted than the scheduler process. Users are advised to upgrade to `apache-airflow` 3.2.2 or later.
Text from the source record.
- Apache Airflow before 3.0.0
- Apache Airflow 3.0.0 before 3.2.2
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How to fix CVE-2026-45360
Upgrade to a fixed release named by Apache:
- 3.0.0
- 3.2.2
Vendor guidance
- Users are advised to upgrade to `apache-airflow` 3.2.2 or later.
Support dates for the fixed release lines
- Apache Airflow 3.0: support ended
- Apache Airflow 3.2: support ended
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