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

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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.

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BIT-airflow-2026-67587

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Security context

Source reference: osv:BIT-airflow-2026-67587

airflow

Source reference: /affected/0/package/name

Affected versions
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Fixed versions
3.3.1

Source reference: /affected/0/ranges

Prerequisites
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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

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Publisher severity

high

Source reference: /database_specific/severity

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