{"id":3721,"date":"2026-09-04T18:42:42","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T10:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.54iter.cn\/?vuln=cve-2026-49298"},"modified":"2026-09-04T18:42:42","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T10:42:42","slug":"cve-2026-49298","status":"publish","type":"vuln","link":"https:\/\/www.54iter.cn\/?vuln=cve-2026-49298","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2026-49298 [HIGH] &#8211; A bug in Apache Airflow&#8217;s KubernetesExecutor caused JWT tokens used by worker pods to auth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bug in Apache Airflow&#8217;s KubernetesExecutor caused JWT tokens used by worker pods to authenticate against the Execution API to be passed to the worker container as command-line arguments visible in the pod spec. An authenticated UI\/API user with Kubernetes read-only access to the cluster (e.g. `pods\/get` in the Airflow namespace) could harvest the JWT from `kubectl describe pod` output and then call state-mutating Execution API endpoints \u2014 triggering Dag runs, clearing runs, reading or writing Variables \/ Connections \/ XComs \u2014 as if they were a running task. Affects deployments using the `KubernetesExecutor`. Users are advised to upgrade to `apache-airflow` 3.2.2 or later. This is the airflow-core half of the same vulnerability addressed by [CVE-2026-27173](https:\/\/www.cve.org\/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-27173), which shipped the apache-airflow-providers-cncf-kubernetes side of the fix. Deployments that already upgraded `apache-airflow-providers-cncf-kubernetes` to 10.17.0 or later per the CVE-2026-27173 advisory should additionally upgrade `apache-airflow` to 3.2.2 or later to close the core-side surface \u2014 the two fixes are complementary, not duplicates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bug in Apache Airflow&#8217;s KubernetesExecutor caused JWT tokens used by worker pods to authenticate against the Execution API to be passed to the worker container as command-line arguments visible in t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3721","vuln","type-vuln","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.54iter.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/vuln\/3721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.54iter.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/vuln"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.54iter.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/vuln"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.54iter.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.54iter.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.54iter.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}