Apache Airflow, versions before 2.8.1, have a vulnerability that allows a potential attacker to poison the XCom data by bypassing the protection of "enable_xcom_pickling=False" configuration setting resulting in poisoned data after XCom deserialization. This vulnerability is considered low since it requires a DAG author to exploit it. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.8.1 or later, which fixes this issue.

Affected Packages

PyPI apache-airflow

Affected versions: 0 (fixed in 2.8.1rc1)

Related CVEs

CVE-2023-50943

Key Information

GHSA ID

GHSA-c3c6-f2ww-xfr2

Published

January 24, 2024 3:30 PM

Last Modified

February 13, 2025 7:33 PM

CVSS Score

7.5 /10

Primary Ecosystem

PyPI

Primary Package

apache-airflow

GitHub Reviewed

✓ Yes

Dataset

Last updated: September 17, 2025 6:29 AM

Data from GitHub Advisory Database. This information is provided for research and educational purposes.