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GHSA-XHP3-RRF4-C8RV

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-09-16 12:30 – Updated: 2026-09-17 21:31

Details

Affects deployments running Airflow 3.3 or later with the Keycloak auth manager. Earlier versions carried the Keycloak tokens inside the signed session token, so the binding existed and was lost when they moved into separate cookies.

Users of apache-airflow-providers-keycloak are recommended to upgrade to version 0.10.0 or later, which binds the cookie-supplied tokens to the session identity.

Severity

9.1 (Critical)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

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CVE-2026-76186 (GCVE-0-2026-76186)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-16 09:09 – Updated: 2026-09-17 19:22

Title

Apache Airflow Keycloak provider: Keycloak token cookies not bound to Airflow session identity

Summary

Apache Airflow Keycloak provider: from Airflow 3.3 the Keycloak auth manager takes a user's identity from the signed Airflow session token but takes the Keycloak access and refresh tokens used for every authorization decision from separate, unauthenticated cookies, and never checks that the two describe the same subject. A user who holds any valid Airflow login of their own, together with another subject's Keycloak access or refresh token obtained out of band, can pair the two: Airflow then authorizes requests with the foreign token's privileges while the session identity, audit log and cache keys continue to name the attacker's own account. The refresh path re-issues an Airflow session token for the original identity carrying the foreign tokens, so the mismatched pairing survives across sessions. Affects deployments running Airflow 3.3 or later with the Keycloak auth manager. Earlier versions carried the Keycloak tokens inside the signed session token, so the binding existed and was lost when they moved into separate cookies. Users of apache-airflow-providers-keycloak are recommended to upgrade to version 0.10.0 or later, which binds the cookie-supplied tokens to the session identity.

Severity

9.1 (Critical)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-09-17 19:22 UTC

CWE

CWE-565 - Reliance on Cookies without Validation and Integrity Checking in a Security Decision

Assigner

apache mitre root

References

4 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/72207	patch
https://lists.apache.org/thread/5cqh5ojl3718ogb0q…	vendor-advisory
https://lists.apache.org/thread/5cqh5ojl3718ogb0q…	vendor-advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/09/15/8

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
Apache Software Foundation	Apache Airflow Keycloak provider	Affected: 0 , < 0.10.0 (semver)

Credits

Claude Security Scans Jarek Potiuk

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