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CVE-2026-45426: Apache Airflow: Log server JWT authorization bypass via Python lstrip character stripping allows cross-Dag log access

This Apache advisory covers CVE-2026-45426 in Apache Airflow.

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Key facts

CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N · base score 3.1, scored by CISA-ADPAttack vector: network. Attack complexity: high. Privileges required: low. User interaction: none. Scope: unchanged. Confidentiality impact: low. Integrity impact: none. Availability impact: none.
Weakness
  • CWE-863: Incorrect Authorization
CISA SSVC
Exploitation: none observed. Automatable: no. Technical impact: partial. CISA, .
CISA KEV
Not listed (catalogue checked )
Affected
Apache Airflow 3.0.0 before 3.2.2
Fixed in
3.2.2
Source published
Source revised
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Affected products & platforms

Apache Software FoundationAirflow

Description

Exploitation requires the attacker to already be an authenticated Airflow worker holding a valid Log-server JWT issued for at least one Dag. Apache Airflow's Log server authorized JWT tokens against Dag IDs by applying Python's `str.lstrip()` to the requested path segment when verifying the JWT's `sub` claim.

`str.lstrip()` strips any of a *set* of characters from the left (not a prefix), so a JWT issued for a Dag named e.g. `dag_a` would authorize log access to any other Dag whose name began with any subset of the characters `{d, a, g, _}` (e.g.

`dag_attacker`, `aaaa_target`, `_dag_secret`). Such an authenticated worker could enumerate and read worker logs of other Dags whose names happened to share that character-class prefix, leaking task output and error traces beyond the documented per-Dag isolation boundary.

Affects deployments relying on per-Dag log-access scoping (multi-team, shared-executor, shared-worker topologies). Users are advised to upgrade to `apache-airflow` 3.2.2 or later.

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Affected versions
  • Apache Airflow 3.0.0 before 3.2.2

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How to fix CVE-2026-45426

Upgrade to a fixed release named by Apache:

  • 3.2.2

Vendor guidance

  • Users are advised to upgrade to `apache-airflow` 3.2.2 or later.

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