Apache Airflow's CeleryExecutor ran callback workloads (`ExecuteCallback`, used for deadline-alert callbacks) without validating the workload's authentication token. Anyone able to write to the Celery broker could enqueue a forged callback and execute arbitrary code on every CeleryExecutor worker, without Airflow credentials. Deployments using the CeleryExecutor are affected.

Users are advised to upgrade to apache-airflow 3.4.0 or later, in which the worker claims the callback through the Execution API, validating the token, before running it.
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Description Apache Airflow's CeleryExecutor ran callback workloads (`ExecuteCallback`, used for deadline-alert callbacks) without validating the workload's authentication token. Anyone able to write to the Celery broker could enqueue a forged callback and execute arbitrary code on every CeleryExecutor worker, without Airflow credentials. Deployments using the CeleryExecutor are affected. Users are advised to upgrade to apache-airflow 3.4.0 or later, in which the worker claims the callback through the Execution API, validating the token, before running it.
Title Apache Airflow: CeleryExecutor: forged callback workloads run on Celery workers without workload-token validation
Weaknesses CWE-306
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: apache

Published:

Updated: 2026-11-09T13:05:04.432Z

Reserved: 2026-08-02T00:09:01.550Z

Link: CVE-2026-68982

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Status : Received

Published: 2026-11-09T10:17:11.123

Modified: 2026-11-09T13:17:08.620

Link: CVE-2026-68982

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Updated: 2026-11-09T12:00:14Z

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