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Chainguard: airflow-2: security update to 2.11.2-r28

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 478369

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - The example example_xcom that was included in airflow documentation implemented unsafe pattern of reading
 value from xcom in the way that could be exploited to allow UI user who had access to modify XComs to
 perform arbitrary execution of code on the worker. Since the UI users are already highly trusted, this is
 a Low severity vulnerability. It does not affect Airflow release - example_dags are not supposed to be
 enabled in production environment, however users following the example could replicate the bad pattern.
 Documentation of Airflow 3.2.0 contains version of the example with improved resiliance for that case.
 Users who followed that pattern are advised to adjust their implementations accordingly. (CVE-2025-54550)

Solution

Update the airflow-2 library and its related packages to version 2.11.2-r28 or later.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 478369

Version: Revision 1.1

Type: Local

Published: 11/5/2026

Updated: 11/5/2026

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.3

Percentile: 53.51

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.5

Temporal Score: 6.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-54550

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/15/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-54550