Apache Airflow: Airflow 3 API: /api/v2/dagReports executes DAG Python in API
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Privilege escalation
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- Low · Low · None
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CISA ADP. Fix status from CNA and GitHub. Impact type from CWE-250.
Summary
API users via `/api/v2/dagReports` could perform Dag code execution in the context of the api-server if the api-server was deployed in the environment where Dag files were available.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- Yes
- Technical impact
- Total
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apache | Apache Airflow | 3.0.0 to before 3.1.1 | 3.1.1 | Patch available | CNA |
| — | apache-airflow (PyPI) | 3.0.0 to before 3.1.1 | 3.1.1 | Patch available | GHSA-273c-4g26-4jpm |
- Apache Airflow VendorApache Affected 3.0.0 to before 3.1.1 Fixed in 3.1.1 Patch available CNA
- apache-airflow (PyPI) Vendor— Affected 3.0.0 to before 3.1.1 Fixed in 3.1.1 Patch available GHSA-273c-4g26-4jpm
Remediation
- Fix · CNA Apache Airflow (Apache Software Foundation) Fixed in 3.1.1
- Fix · GHSA-273c-4g26-4jpm apache-airflow (PyPI) Fixed in 3.1.1 Advisory →
Fixed in the same release
Records fixed by the same vendor advisory or release, as the CNA lists them.
- Release ·
Apache Airflow 3.1.1
2 records Highest priority Priority LOW 2 LOW
Other records, highest priority first
- TI-2025-38744 Apache Airflow: Privilege boundary bypass in bulk APIs (create action can upsert existing Pools/Connections/Variables)Priority LOW 22
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-62402
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-273c-4g26-4jpm
- 2026-11-03 Fix available: [email protected] · CNA
References
Advisory 3
More Apache Airflow vulnerabilities
- TI-2020-10905 Missing authentication in Apache Airflow KEVCVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2020-09638 OS command injection in Apache Airflow KEVCVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
- TI-2022-19017 Apache Airflow <2.4.0 has an RCE in a bash example CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
- TI-2021-16140 Apache Airflow: Variable Import endpoint missed authentication check CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2022-08169 Apache Airflow: RCE in example DAGs CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
- TI-2024-26776 Apache Airflow: DAG Author Code Execution possibility in airflow-scheduler CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
Sources
- CVE-2025-62402 · CVE Program
- CVE-2025-62402 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-273c-4g26-4jpm · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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