CVE-2025-54550Code Injection in Software Foundation Apache Airflow

CWE-94Code Injection3 documents3 sources
Severity
8.1HIGHCNA
No vector
EPSS
0.0%
top 92.73%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
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

Affected Packages1 packages

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
Apache Airflow: RCE by race condition in example_xcom dag2026-04-16
CVEList
Apache Airflow: RCE by race condition in example_xcom dag2026-04-15
CVE-2025-54550 — Code Injection | cvebase