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CVE-2026-68968

Apache Airflow: Authorization bypass in the Backfill API through conflicting interpretations of the backfill id

Products / packages Apache Software Foundation Apache Airflow

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Severity and exploitation

Not in CISA KEV

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KEV checked 14/11/2026, 23:55:31 UTC
CISA-ADP · CVSS:3.1 · 7.5
Assessment vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Severity

high7.5

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Known exploitation

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Public exploit

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Remediation

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What this means

Apache Airflow's Backfill API has an authorization bypass vulnerability due to conflicting interpretations of the backfill id, affecting versions less than 3.0.0 and 3.0.0 to less than 3.3.1. An authenticated user with edit permission on any Dag can read, pause, and cancel backfills of other Dags. The issue arises from different parsing of the backfill id by the authorization dependency and the route handler.

Summarized by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast. Verify details against the original sources.

Attack conditions

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Affected versions

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Apache Software Foundation · apache

Apache Airflow

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affected

0 → before 3.0.0

semver versions

unaffected

unknown

Other versions: unaffected

Apache Software Foundation · apache

Apache Airflow

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affected

3.0.0 → before 3.3.1

semver versions

unaffected

unknown

Other versions: unaffected

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What to do

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Public exploit evidence

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Original source description

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Apache Airflow's Backfill API authorized a request against a Dag id supplied by the caller whenever the backfill_id path segment failed to parse. The authorization dependency parsed it with int() while the route handler parsed it as pydantic's NonNegativeInt, which accepts values int() rejects (1.0 coerces to 1); FastAPI resolves dependencies before endpoint validation, so the two acted on different Dags. An authenticated user holding edit permission on any single Dag could therefore read, pause and cancel backfills belonging to any other Dag, including moving another Dag's queued runs to failed. No non-default configuration is required and backfill ids are sequential, so finding a target is trivial. Users are advised to upgrade to apache-airflow 3.3.1 or later, which parses the backfill id with the same type the routes declare.

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CVE-2026-68968

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Underlying weaknesses

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CWE-436 ↗

CWE-436: Interpretation Conflict

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apache

Assigning organization

2026-11-03
CVE

Additional data publisher

2026-08-12
CISA-ADP

Additional data publisher

2026-08-13

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