title: Apache Airflow: Potential pickle deserialization vulnerability in XComs
description: Apache Airflow, versions before 2.8.1, have a vulnerability that allows a potential attacker to poison the XCom data by bypassing the protection of "enable_xcom_pickling=False" configuration setting resulting in poisoned data after XCom deserialization. This vulnerability is considered low since it requires a DAG author to exploit it. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.8.1 or later, which fixes this issue.
problem types: CWE-502 Deserialization of Untrusted Data
affected:
{
collectionURL: https://pypi.python.org
defaultStatus: unaffected
packageName: apache-airflow
product: Apache Airflow
vendor: Apache Software Foundation
versions:
lessThan: 2.8.1, status: affected, version: 0, versionType: semver
}
metrics:
other: [
content: {'text': 'low'}
type: Textual description of severity
]