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CVE-2023-50943

Published: Jan 24, 2024

Modified: May 30, 2025

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Description

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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
Apache Software Foundation	Apache Airflow	affected `0 - < 2.8.1`

Weaknesses (CWE)

References

https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/36255

patch

https://lists.apache.org/thread/fx278v0twqzxkcts70tc04cp3f8p56pn

vendor-advisory

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/01/24/4

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