Apache Airflow Teradata provider: SQL injection via unvalidated Dag Params in the compute-cluster example Dag
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- SQL injection
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- Low · Low · Low
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CISA ADP. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-89.
Summary
The Apache Airflow Teradata provider's compute-cluster example Dag declared every one of its Dag Params as unconstrained free text and templated them straight into the compute-cluster operators, which interpolate those values into Teradata DDL. A user who is permitted to trigger that Dag - a lower-trust role than the Dag author, and one that needs no Teradata credentials of its own - could therefore supply SQL fragments that execute under the connection the task runs as, and could additionally redirect the task at any other connection defined in the deployment, because the connection id was itself a free-text Param. Only deployments that run this example Dag, or a Dag copied from it, are affected; the provider's operator code is unchanged. Users of apache-airflow-providers-teradata are recommended to upgrade to version 3.7.0 or later, whose example constrains the Params to validated identifiers and a closed value set and removes connection selection and free-form option strings from trigger-time input. Upgrading does not change a Dag already copied from the example; users who copied it should apply the same constraints to their copy.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA Apache Airflow Teradata provider (Apache Software Foundation) Fixed in 3.7.0
Fixed in the same release
Records fixed by the same vendor advisory or release, as the CNA lists them.
- Release ·
Apache Airflow Teradata provider 3.7.0
2 records Highest priority Priority LOW 2 LOW
Other records, highest priority first
- TI-2026-56479 Sensitive information in log files in Apache Airflow Teradata providerPriority LOW 29
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-86843
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-w623-968q-qp55
- 2026-10-08 EPSS moved to the 50th–90th percentile
- 2026-10-25 EPSS moved to the below the 50th percentile
References
More Apache-airflow-providers-teradata vulnerabilities
- TI-2026-56479 Sensitive information in log files in Apache Airflow Teradata provider CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.5
Sources
- CVE-2026-86843 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-86843 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-w623-968q-qp55 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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