CVE-2025-54550High· 8.1▾ TwilightApache Airflow: RCE by race condition in example_xcom dag
▾ Twilight zone — High severity, or a signal on a lesser flaw
impact 44.6 · likelihood 0.1 · exploitation 0
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Disclosed via OSV
Last analysed / modified upstream
0.6%
The example example_xcom that was included in airflow documentation implemented unsafe pattern of reading value from xcom in the way that could be exploited to allow UI user who had access to modify XComs to perform arbitrary execution of code on the worker. Since the UI users are already highly trusted, this is a Low severity vulnerability.
It does not affect Airflow release - example_dags are not supposed to be enabled in production environment, however users following the example could replicate the bad pattern. Documentation of Airflow 3.2.0 contains version of the example with improved resiliance for that case.
Users who followed that pattern are advised to adjust their implementations accordingly.
apache-airflow < 3.2.0Upgrade to a patched release:
apache-airflow 3.2.0Connected by shared product, vendor, weakness, or advisory.
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