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PYSEC-2026-770

OS Command Injection in Apache Airflow

Quick fix

PYSEC-2026-770 — apache-airflow: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

pip install --upgrade 'apache-airflow>=2.3.0'

Details

Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection') vulnerability in Apache Airflow Spark Provider, Apache Airflow allows an attacker to read arbtrary files in the task execution context, without write access to DAG files. This issue affects Spark Provider versions prior to 4.0.0. It also impacts any Apache Airflow versions prior to 2.3.0 in case Spark Provider is installed (Spark Provider 4.0.0 can only be installed for Airflow 2.3.0+). Note that you need to manually install the Spark Provider version 4.0.0 in order to get rid of the vulnerability on top of Airflow 2.3.0+ version that has lower version of the Spark Provider installed).

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Affected packages

PyPI/apache-airflow
Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 2.3.0
Fixpip install --upgrade 'apache-airflow>=2.3.0'

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