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Critical · 9.8 CVE-2026-82311 EUVD-2026-80318GHSA-gr7m-j34w-7qcm

Apache Airflow FAB provider: FAB password reset never invalidates sessions: string/int _user_id comparison is always false

Published Sep 16, 2026 · Updated Sep 17, 2026 · Assigned by apache

Description

Apache Airflow FAB provider: resetting a user's password does not delete that user's existing database-backed sessions, despite documented behaviour that it does. The cleanup compares the string identifier Flask-Login stores in the session against the user's integer database identifier, so the comparison never matches and no session is removed. An attacker who already holds a copy of the victim's session cookie keeps access as that user after the password change, so the reset does not evict them.

Affects deployments using the FAB auth manager with `[fab] session_backend=database`. The trigger is an administrator (or the user) running the supported password-reset command as a containment action after a session cookie has been compromised; the secure-cookie backend is out of scope, as it documents that it cannot centrally delete sessions.

apache-airflow-providers-fab 3.9.0 also fixes CVE-2026-86462, a second, independent route to the same outcome via the Admin user-edit endpoint; a single upgrade closes both.

Users of apache-airflow-providers-fab are recommended to upgrade to version 3.9.0 or later, which compares the identifiers consistently.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Apache Software Foundation Apache Airflow FAB provider 2.4.2 – < 3.9.0 3.9.0

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