CVE-2023-50943 (GCVE-0-2023-50943)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-01-24 12:57
Modified
2025-05-30 14:16
Severity ?
CWE
  • CWE-502 - Deserialization of Untrusted Data
Summary
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.
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