CVE-2026-68968CWE-436

CVE-2026-68968

High · published August 12, 2026

CVSS v3.1
7.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
34.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.5 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00417 · 34.9th percentile
Weakness
CWE-436 · Interpretation Conflict
Published
2026-08-12T20:17Z
Affected products (1)
ProductVersionsFixed in
apache/airflow< 3.3.13.3.1
References (3)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 12 AUG 15:27Z
    Apache Airflow: Authorization bypass in the Backfill API through conflicting interpretations of the backfill id
    cvelistv5