CVE-2023-50943

CVE-2023-50943: Apache Airflow: Potential pickle deserialization vulnerability in XComs

Vendor Apache Software Foundation
Product Apache Airflow
Weakness CWE-502 · Unsafe deserialization
Published January 24, 2024
Last update May 30, 2025

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What the vulnerability does

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.

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Disclosure timeline

January 24, 2024 CVE published
May 30, 2025 Record updated