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Apache Airflow: Authorization bypass in the Backfill API through conflicting interpretations of the backfill id

Type: advisorySource: OSV1 source record

Apache Airflow's Backfill API authorized a request against a Dag id supplied by the caller whenever the `backfill_id` path segment failed to parse. The authorization dependency parsed it with `int()` while the route handler parsed it as pydantic's `NonNegativeInt`, which accepts values `int()` rejects (`1.0` coerces to `1`); FastAPI resolves dependencies before endpoint validation, so the two acted on different Dags. An authenticated user holding edit permission on any single Dag could therefore read, pause and cancel backfills belonging to any other Dag, including moving another Dag's queued runs to `failed`. No non-default configuration is required and backfill ids are sequential, so finding a target is trivial. Users are advised to upgrade to apache-airflow 3.3.1 or later, which parses the backfill id with the same type the routes declare.

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BIT-airflow-2026-68968

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Security context

Source reference: osv:BIT-airflow-2026-68968

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": "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:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N"
      }
    ],
    "database_specific": {
      "source": "https://github.com/bitnami/vulndb/tree/main/data/airflow/BIT-airflow-2026-68968.json"
    }
  }
]
Related CVEs
CVE-2026-68968

Source reference: /aliases

Publisher severity

high

Source reference: /database_specific/severity

Event
#72790 · Revision 1
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