CVE-2025-54550 — Code Injection in Software Foundation Apache Airflow
Severity
8.1HIGHCNA
No vectorEPSS
0.0%
top 92.73%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedApr 15
Latest updateApr 16
Description
The example example_xcom that was included in airflow documentation implemented unsafe pattern of reading value
from xcom in the way that could be exploited to allow UI user who had access to modify XComs to perform arbitrary
execution of code on the worker. Since the UI users are already highly trusted, this is a Low severity vulnerability.
It does not affect Airflow release - example_dags are not supposed to be enabled in production environment, however
users following the example could repli…