CVE-2023-50943

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    CVE-2023-50943

    Published: 24 Jan 2024Last Modified: 12 Aug 2026

    Summary: Apache Airflow: Potential pickle deserialization vulnerability in XComs

    Details: 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.

    References: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/01/24/4, https://pypi.python.org, https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/50xxx/CVE-2023-50943.json, https://lists.apache.org/thread/fx278v0twqzxkcts70tc04cp3f8p56pn, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-50943, https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/36255

    Affected packages

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -4c66ebd06029bf28b2cbeb7fed0f0c7f7f74e211

    Affected versions

    providers-fab/2.2.1rc2
    providers-fab/2.2.1
    providers-fab/2.2.1rc1
    providers-fab/2.2.0rc1
    providers-fab/2.2.0

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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