CVE-2026-68982: Apache Airflow: CeleryExecutor: forged callback workloads run on Celery workers without workload-token validation

Published Nov 9, 2026
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Updated

Apache Airflow's CeleryExecutor ran callback workloads (ExecuteCallback, used for deadline-alert callbacks) without validating the workload's authentication token. Anyone able to write to the Celery broker could enqueue a forged callback and execute arbitrary code on every CeleryExecutor worker, without Airflow credentials. Deployments using the CeleryExecutor are affected.

Users are advised to upgrade to apache-airflow 3.4.0 or later, in which the worker claims the callback through the Execution API, validating the token, before running it.

Affected Software

1 affected component
pypi/apache-airflow<3.4.0

Remediation

Recommended actions to resolve this vulnerability, in priority order.

  1. Upgrade

    Upgrade apache-airflow to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 3.4.0

Event History

Nov 9, 2026
CVE Published
via MITRE·09:55 AM
Data Sourced
via MITRE·09:55 AM
DescriptionWeakness
Data Sourced
via NVD·10:17 AM
DescriptionWeakness

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