CVE-2023-50943

Summary

CVE-2023-50943 is a vulnerability affecting Apache Airflow versions prior to 2.8.1. An attacker can exploit this issue by poisoning XCom data, bypassing the "enable_xcom_pickling=False" configuration setting. This vulnerability results in the deserialization of malicious data, leading to potentially harmful outcomes. The risk level for this vulnerability is considered low, as exploitation requires the actions of a DAG author. Users are strongly advised to upgrade to version 2.8.1 or later to mitigate this issue.

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