Apache Airflow: DAG-author remote code execution on the Scheduler via a Serde `Callback` deserialization gadget
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.
BIT-airflow-2026-67587
Primary source · Revision 1
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Security context
Source reference: osv:BIT-airflow-2026-67587
airflow
Source reference: /affected/0/package/name
- Affected versions
- Not stated in this record
- Fixed versions
- 3.3.1
Source reference:
/affected/0/ranges - Prerequisites
- Not stated in this record
Structured affected-version data
Original package identities and version rules from this source.
[
{
"ranges": [
{
"type": "SEMVER",
"events": [
{
"introduced": "3.3.0"
},
{
"fixed": "3.3.1"
}
]
}
],
"package": {
"name": "airflow",
"purl": "pkg:bitnami/airflow",
"ecosystem": "Bitnami"
},
"severity": [
{
"type": "CVSS_V3",
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
}
],
"database_specific": {
"source": "https://github.com/bitnami/vulndb/tree/main/data/airflow/BIT-airflow-2026-67587.json"
}
}
]- Related CVEs
- CVE-2026-67587
Source reference:
/aliases
Publisher severity
high
Source reference: /database_specific/severity
- Event
- #72786 · Revision 1
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- Publisher date