CVE-2023-50943: Apache Airflow

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Apache Airflow, versions before 2.8.1, have a vulnerability that allows a potential attacker to poison the XCom data by bypassing the protection of "enable_xcom_pickling=False" configuration setting resulting in poisoned data after XCom deserialization. This vulnerability is considered low since it requires a DAG author to exploit it. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.8.1 or later, which fixes this issue.

Affected products

• Apache Airflow: before 2.8.1 (fixed in 2.8.1)

Published 2024-01-24. Last modified 2026-06-17.