CVE-2026-68982 (GCVE-0-2026-68982)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-11-09 09:55 – Updated: 2026-11-09 13:05
VLAI
Title
Apache Airflow: CeleryExecutor: forged callback workloads run on Celery workers without workload-token validation
Summary
Apache Airflow's CeleryExecutor ran callback workloads (`ExecuteCallback`, used for deadline-alert callbacks) without validating the workload's authentication token. Anyone able to write to the Celery broker could enqueue a forged callback and execute arbitrary code on every CeleryExecutor worker, without Airflow credentials. Deployments using the CeleryExecutor are affected. Users are advised to upgrade to apache-airflow 3.4.0 or later, in which the worker claims the callback through the Execution API, validating the token, before running it.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • CWE-306 - Missing Authentication for Critical Function
Assigner
apache CNA
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Apache Software Foundation Apache Airflow Affected: 0 , < 3.4.0 (semver)
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