Apache Airflow FAB provider: the Authentik OAuth path in the FAB auth manager does not validate the issuer or audience claims of the id_token it accepts. An attacker holding a token that the same Authentik identity provider minted for a different client application can present it to Airflow and be authenticated as the user it names, because the audience claim is never checked. Affects deployments using the FAB auth manager with Authentik OAuth where the same Authentik instance also serves other applications; the attacker needs a valid token for any of those other applications, not for Airflow.
CVE-2026-75156 corrected the same missing validation on the Azure AD path in this file; the Authentik path was left unchanged and is fixed here. Deployments that applied the CVE-2026-75156 fix and use Authentik must also upgrade for this one.
Users of apache-airflow-providers-fab are recommended to upgrade to version 3.9.0 or later, which fixes the issue.
References
| Link | Resource |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/72645 | Patch Vendor Advisory |
| https://lists.apache.org/thread/qh7fobs16p2hgln2yblbgf8ty4dvf4y7 | Mailing List Vendor Advisory |
| https://lists.apache.org/thread/qh7fobs16p2hgln2yblbgf8ty4dvf4y7?users@airflow.apache.org | Mailing List Vendor Advisory |
| https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-75156 | Third Party Advisory |
Configurations
History
18 Sep 2026, 14:29
| Type | Values Removed | Values Added |
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| CPE | cpe:2.3:a:apache:apache-airflow-providers-fab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | |
| First Time |
Apache
Apache apache-airflow-providers-fab |
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| References | () https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/72645 - Patch, Vendor Advisory | |
| References | () https://lists.apache.org/thread/qh7fobs16p2hgln2yblbgf8ty4dvf4y7 - Mailing List, Vendor Advisory | |
| References | () https://lists.apache.org/thread/qh7fobs16p2hgln2yblbgf8ty4dvf4y7?users@airflow.apache.org - Mailing List, Vendor Advisory | |
| References | () https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-75156 - Third Party Advisory |
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| CVSS |
v2 : v3 : |
v2 : unknown
v3 : 8.1 |
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Information
Published : 2026-09-16 10:16
Updated : 2026-09-18 14:29
NVD link : CVE-2026-86466
Mitre link : CVE-2026-86466
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-86466
JSON object : View
Products Affected
apache
- apache-airflow-providers-fab
CWE
CWE-346
Origin Validation Error
