{"id":"CVE-2026-76186","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-76186","generatedAt":"2026-09-20T10:52:01.811Z","title":"A user who holds any valid Airflow login of their own, together with another subject's Keycloak access or refresh token obtained out of band, can pair the two: Airflow then authorizes requests with the foreign token's privileges while the session…","description":"Apache Airflow Keycloak provider: from Airflow 3.3 the Keycloak auth manager takes a user's identity from the signed Airflow session token but takes the Keycloak access and refresh tokens used for every authorization decision from separate, unauthenticated cookies, and never checks that the two describe the same subject. A user who holds any valid Airflow login of their own, together with another subject's Keycloak access or refresh token obtained out of band, can pair the two: Airflow then authorizes requests with the foreign token's privileges while the session identity, audit log and cache keys continue to name the attacker's own account. The refresh path re-issues an Airflow session token for the original identity carrying the foreign tokens, so the mismatched pairing survives across sessions.\n\nAffects deployments running Airflow 3.3 or later with the Keycloak auth manager. Earlier versions carried the Keycloak tokens inside the signed session token, so the binding existed and was lost when they moved into separate cookies.\n\nUsers of apache-airflow-providers-keycloak are recommended to upgrade to version 0.10.0 or later, which binds the cookie-supplied tokens to the session identity.","published":"2026-09-16T10:16:53.000Z","lastModified":"2026-09-18T14:26:45.000Z","status":"Analyzed","sourceIdentifier":"security@apache.org","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":9.1,"severity":"CRITICAL","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-565"],"affected":["apache/apache-airflow-providers-keycloak"],"epss":{"score":0.00789,"percentile":0.54693,"date":"2026-09-19","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.79%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/72207","tags":["Patch","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"security@apache.org"},{"url":"https://lists.apache.org/thread/5cqh5ojl3718ogb0q1dcd9vdr47z7gp3","tags":["Mailing List","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"security@apache.org"},{"url":"https://lists.apache.org/thread/5cqh5ojl3718ogb0q1dcd9vdr47z7gp3?users@airflow.apache.org","tags":["Mailing List","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"security@apache.org"},{"url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/09/15/8","tags":["Mailing List","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-76186","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}