Apache Airflow missing team context permits cross-team Dag actions and XCom reads
Apache Airflow's asset materialization endpoint (`POST /api/v2/assets/{asset_id}/materialize`) and the XCom result check on `wait_dag_run_until_finished` authorized the target Dag without its team, unlike every other authorization site. A team-aware auth manager distinguishes a team-scoped Dag from a global one by that field -- the Keycloak auth manager, for example, checks the `DAG` resource instead of `DAG:<team>` -- so the team-scoped permission that should gate the request was never consulted. In a deployment running multi-team mode with a team-aware auth manager, an authenticated user in one team could trigger Dag runs belonging to another team, supplying their own `dag_run_id` and `conf`, and could read another team's XCom values. Deployments using the FAB auth manager are unaffected, as it has no multi-team support. Users are advised to upgrade to apache-airflow 3.3.1 or later, which resolves the Dag's team at both sites.
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Related CVEs.
| ID | severity | exploitable | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2026-68971US | —OT elevated | — | ||
Apache Airflow's asset materialization endpoint (`POST /api/v2/assets/{asset_id}/materialize`) and the XCom result check on `wait_dag_run_until_finished` authorized the target Dag… | ||||
references
External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/08/12/15WEB
- https://github.com/apache/airflowPACKAGE
- https://github.com/apache/airflow/commit/0940c4b66c270d929e9f59914c65e15bd4734680WEB
- https://github.com/apache/airflow/commit/f81459835adb111e57b2a87f586d856395660f8aWEB
- https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/70893WEB
- https://github.com/apache/airflow/releases/tag/3.3.1WEB
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/apache-airflow/PYSEC-2026-3994.yamlWEB
- https://lists.apache.org/thread/kfxqqwgojdjdnt6bxg3ord4y41y334foWEB
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