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CVE-2025-62503: Apache Airflow: Privilege boundary bypass in bulk APIs (create action can upsert existing Pools/Connections/Variables)

From: Kaxil Naik <kaxilnaik () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2025 20:17:42 +0000

Severity: low

Affected versions:

- Apache Airflow (apache-airflow> 3.0.0, < 3.1.1) 3.0.0 before 3.1.1

Description:

User with CREATE and no UPDATE privilege for Pools, Connections,
Variables could update existing records via bulk create API with
overwrite action.

Credit:

Maciej Kawka (finder)

References:

https://lists.apache.org/thread/3v58249qscyn1hg240gh8hqg9pb4okcr
https://airflow.apache.org/
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-62503

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CVE-2025-62503: Apache Airflow: Privilege boundary bypass in bulk APIs (create action can upsert existing Pools/Connections/Variables) Kaxil Naik (Oct 29)