CVE-2026-82311
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Summary
Apache Airflow FAB provider: resetting a user's password does not delete that user's existing database-backed sessions, despite documented behaviour that it does. The cleanup compares the string identifier Flask-Login stores in the session against the user's integer database identifier, so the comparison never matches and no session is removed. An attacker who already holds a copy of the victim's session cookie keeps access as that user after the password change, so the reset does not evict them.
Affects deployments using the FAB auth manager with [fab] session_backend=database. The trigger is an administrator (or the user) running the supported password-reset command as a containment action after a session cookie has been compromised; the secure-cookie backend is out of scope, as it documents that it cannot centrally delete sessions.
apache-airflow-providers-fab 3.9.0 also fixes CVE-2026-86462, a second, independent route to the same outcome via the Admin user-edit endpoint; a single upgrade closes both.
Users of apache-airflow-providers-fab are recommended to upgrade to version 3.9.0 or later, which compares the identifiers consistently.
Affected Software
| Vendor | Product | Version Range | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apache Software Foundation | Apache Airflow FAB provider | 2.4.2 < 3.9.0 | affected |
Weaknesses
- CWE-613: CWE-613: Insufficient Session Expiration
References
- https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/72198
- https://lists.apache.org/thread/mmplwl93shy615shkpp9p4fzyjvr4yqw?users@airflow.apache.org
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-86462
- https://lists.apache.org/thread/mmplwl93shy615shkpp9p4fzyjvr4yqw
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