CVE-2026-45360CWE-502

Apache Airflow: Arbitrary import in custom deadline-reference deserialization

High · published June 1, 2026

CVSS v3.1
7.3
EPSS
1%
Percentile
60.1
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Apache Airflow's scheduler-side deadline-reference decoder (`SerializedCustomReference.deserialize_reference`) imported and dispatched arbitrary class paths drawn from DAG-author-controlled serialized state without an allowlist or plugin-registry gate. A DAG author whose code reaches the scheduler — the default on single-host deployments where the DAG bundle is importable from the scheduler process — could embed a custom `DeadlineReference` whose serialized form named an attacker-controlled module path, causing the scheduler to `import_string(...)` and instantiate that class with a live SQLAlchemy session attached. Affects deployments where DAG-author code is less trusted than the scheduler process. Users are advised to upgrade to `apache-airflow` 3.2.2 or later.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.3 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00927 · 60.1th percentile
Weakness
CWE-502 · Deserialization of Untrusted Data
Published
2026-06-01T07:48Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 01 JUN 07:48Z
    Apache Airflow: Arbitrary import in custom deadline-reference deserialization
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