Apache Airflow 3.3.0 moved human-in-the-loop tasks from the triggerer to a new `awaiting_input` task state swept by the
Apache Airflow 3.3.0 moved human-in-the-loop tasks from the triggerer to a new `awaiting_input` task state swept by the scheduler. That sweep deserializes the task instance's `next_kwargs` without an allow-list, so a Dag author — who controls that value through the task execution API — can cause an arbitrary module import and object instantiation inside the scheduler process, or terminate the scheduler job. No non-default configuration is required: the sweep runs unconditionally every 15 seconds
Affected packages
- apache-airflow— 3.3.0 → 3.3.1
Exploit signal
- Known exploited (CISA KEV)
- No
- EPSS score
- —
- EPSS percentile
- —
EPSS is the probability a CVE is exploited in the wild; percentile is its rank among all CVEs.
Sources
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-58076
- https://lists.apache.org/thread/vygr0fh82cjzjp5k4vtfmboxryvm3lyn
- https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/70685
Structured record: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/PYSEC-2026-3707
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