CVE-2026-67587: Apache Airflow Task SDK Callback deserialization can import arbitrary modules in the scheduler
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Apache Airflow’s Task SDK rebuilt a Callback object from serialized data by re-running its constructor, which imports the module named by the stored callback path. Because SyncCallback is itself an Airflow class it passes the default allowed_deserialization_classes allow-list, so tightening that setting does not help. A Dag author — who controls a task instance’s next_kwargs through the task execution API — can therefore cause an arbitrary module to be imported inside the scheduler process, when the scheduler’s awaiting_input timeout sweep deserializes that value. No non-default configuration is required; the sweep runs unconditionally. Versions before 3.3.0 are not affected: the class existed, but the scheduler sweep that reaches it did not. This is a separate code path from CVE-2026-58076 and CVE-2026-67260, which cover different gadgets reaching deserialization — applying either of those fixes does not address this one. Users are advised to upgrade to apache-airflow 3.3.1 or later.
References
- github.com/advisories/GHSA-2qjv-p2gc-mjg2
- github.com/apache/airflow/commit/1baee0bf987eb220f15398e43572e1ed819a0130
- github.com/apache/airflow/commit/2b598cb8b0570c941633be3d16a7eb912f73180c
- github.com/apache/airflow/pull/70704
- github.com/apache/airflow/releases/tag/3.3.1
- github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/apache-airflow/PYSEC-2026-3708.yaml
- lists.apache.org/thread/o00ww4n69qojvsckb464dtwd2nhzy6t0
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-67587
- www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-58076
- www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-67260
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