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Apache Airflow's scheduler-side deadline-reference decoder (SerializedCustomReference.deserializereference) imported and dispatched…

CVE-2026-45360

Apache Airflow's scheduler-side deadline-reference decoder (SerializedCustomReference.deserializereference) imported and dispatched arbitrary class paths drawn from DAG-author-controlled serialized state without an allowlist or plugin-registry gate. A DAG author whose code reaches the scheduler — the default on single-host deployments where the DAG bundle is importable from the scheduler process — could embed a custom DeadlineReference whose serialized form named an attacker-controlled module path, causing the scheduler to importstring(...) and instantiate that class with a live SQLAlchemy session attached. Affects deployments where DAG-author code is less trusted than the scheduler process. Users are advised to upgrade to apache-airflow 3.2.2 or later.

Assessment

CVSS
7.3 (v3.1)
Severity
High
EPSS
0.68% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Known exploited
Not listed in CISA KEV
Exploit availability
Nothing found in Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei or public PoC repositories
Published
1 June 2026
Last updated
3 November 2026
Assigner
apache

CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

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