{"answers":{"affected":"4 open source packages ship an affected version, including apache-airflow and airflow. It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-28779 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Upgrade apache-airflow to 3.1.8 or later.","what":"CVE-2026-28779 is a high-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in Apache Airflow, published on 17 Mar 2026. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2026-28779 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2026-28779 is a high-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in Apache Airflow, published on 17 Mar 2026. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-28779 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected packages and fixed versions:\n- apache-airflow (PyPI): affected from 3.0.0; fixed in 3.1.8\n- apache-airflow (PyPI): affected from 3.0.0; fixed in 3.1.8\n- apache-airflow (PyPI): affected from 3.0.0; fixed in 3.1.8\n- airflow (Bitnami): affected from 3.0.0; fixed in 3.1.8\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-28779/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-28779/index.md)","id":"CVE-2026-28779","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-28779/index.md","name":"CVE-2026-28779","record":{"aliases":["BIT-airflow-2026-28779","CLEANSTART-2026-HU66748","ECHO-9394-6681-a7a1","GHSA-4fhm-p86v-hwpx","MINI-7rg2-8mqc-5fr8","PYSEC-2026-16"],"analysis":{"component_type":"web_application","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["account_takeover"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Apache Airflow","requires_auth":"none","summary":"Attackers can hijack Apache Airflow sessions by capturing tokens from co-hosted applications due to incorrect cookie path settings.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"auth_bypass"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"apache","cpe":[{"product":"airflow","vendor":"apache"}],"cvss":{"score":7.5,"severity":"high","source":"cisa-adp","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-668","name":"Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere"}],"description":"Apache Airflow versions 3.1.0 through 3.1.7 session token (_token) in cookies is set to path=/ regardless of the configured [webserver] base_url or [api] base_url.\nThis allows any application co-hosted under the same domain to capture valid Airflow session tokens from HTTP request headers, allowing full session takeover without attacking Airflow itself.\n\nUsers are recommended to upgrade to Apache Airflow 3.1.8 or later, which resolves this issue.","ecosystems":["Bitnami","PyPI"],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"Apache Airflow: Path of session token in cookie does not consider base_url - 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