{
  "affected": [
    {
      "ranges": [
        {
          "database_specific": {
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "introduced": "0"
              },
              {
                "fixed": "3.2.2"
              }
            ],
            "source": [
              "AFFECTED_FIELD",
              "CPE_RANGE"
            ]
          },
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "21cbbf663b140f4a84cf123acb90328a6a4d30f5"
            }
          ],
          "repo": "https://github.com/apache/airflow",
          "type": "GIT"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cna_assigner": "apache",
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-538"
    ],
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/49xxx/CVE-2026-49298.json"
  },
  "details": "A bug in Apache Airflow'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 — triggering Dag runs, clearing runs, reading or writing Variables / Connections / XComs — 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 — the two fixes are complementary, not duplicates.",
  "id": "CVE-2026-49298",
  "modified": "2026-07-08T05:36:02.836236991Z",
  "published": "2026-06-01T07:34:32.229Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://pypi.python.org"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/49xxx/CVE-2026-49298.json"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://lists.apache.org/thread/wo09vrks8189dzsot39rvrx3vnx102tt"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-49298"
    },
    {
      "type": "FIX",
      "url": "https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/60108"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.7.5",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ],
  "summary": "Apache Airflow: JWT Token Exposure in KubernetesExecutor Command-Line Arguments"
}