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High · 7.3 Public exploit CVE-2026-68982 EUVD-2026-119905GHSA-3m38-qxxm-8g9g

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

Published Nov 9, 2026 · Updated Nov 12, 2026 · Assigned by apache

Vendor: Apache Software Foundation Product: Apache Airflow

Description

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 products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Apache Software Foundation Apache Airflow < 3.4.0 3.4.0

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