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CVE-2026-82355
Apache Airflow: Session cookie silently overrides explicit Authorization bearer header, enabling session fixation
Description

When a request to the Airflow core API carries both a session cookie and an explicit `Authorization: Bearer` token, Airflow resolves the caller from the cookie and ignores the bearer token, inverting the intended precedence of bearer over cookie. The request then executes -- and is recorded in the audit log -- as the cookie's principal rather than the identity the client explicitly presented. Only Apache Airflow 3.3.0 and 3.3.1 are affected. Earlier releases do not contain the code path that caches the cookie-derived user, and are not vulnerable. Exploiting this requires an attacker to first place a valid session cookie of their own into the victim's browser or client: for example by cookie tossing from a sibling subdomain, through cross-site scripting in a separate application sharing a parent domain, or via a shared workstation. Deployments that host the Airflow UI on a domain shared with other applications are therefore the most exposed; a deployment on a dedicated domain with no co-hosted applications is not reachable this way. The consequence is principal confusion and misattributed audit records rather than a direct privilege escalation. Users of 3.3.0 or 3.3.1 should upgrade to Apache Airflow 3.3.2 or later, which resolves the caller from the explicitly supplied credential whenever one is present.

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Published Date :

Sept. 21, 2026, 2:32 p.m.

Last Modified :

Sept. 21, 2026, 2:32 p.m.

Remotely Exploit :

No

Source :

apache
Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2026-82355 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Apache airflow
Solution
Upgrade Airflow to version 3.3.2 or later to fix authentication precedence.
  • Upgrade Apache Airflow to version 3.3.2 or later.
  • Ensure authentication token precedence is correctly handled.

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