CVE-2026-49297 — Security Box Score

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CVE-2026-49297HIGH

Apache Airflow Google provider: Path traversal via GCS object names → local/SFTP filesystem (GCSToSFTPOperator + GCSTimeSpanFileTransformOperator)

  AV  AC  PR  UI  S  C  I  A   CVSS    EPSS   %ile   KEV
   N   L   L   N  U  N  H  H    8.1   .0070   50.2     —

AFFECTED
  Product                         Versions     Fixed
  Apache Airflow Google provider  unspecified  —

TIMELINE
  May 28  Reserved by apache
  Jul 6   EXPLOIT PUBLISHED — CVE-2026-49297 (Apache Software Foundation Apache Airflow Google provider). Public exploit reference added.
  Jul 6   Published (CNA: apache)

CWE-22 · CNA: apache · CVSS v3.1 · 3 references · NVD status: Analyzed

Description

Apache Airflow's Google provider operators `GCSToSFTPOperator` and `GCSTimeSpanFileTransformOperator` joined GCS object names returned by the bucket listing API directly to a destination filesystem path without normalisation or containment check. A user with write access to the source GCS bucket (typically a different trust principal than the DAG author — partner uploads, ingest-only service accounts, public-data buckets) could create an object whose name contains `..` segments and cause the DAG run to write the downloaded blob outside the configured destination (the SFTP `destination_path` for `GCSToSFTPOperator`; the worker-local temp directory for `GCSTimeSpanFileTransformOperator`), enabling overwrite of arbitrary files on the SFTP server or the worker host. Affects deployments that ingest from buckets writable by less-trusted principals. Users are advised to upgrade to `apache-airflow-providers-google` 22.2.1 or later.

Lifecycle

Complete event history — 3 events, chronological
Date	Event	Detail
May 28, 2026	Reserved	Reserved by apache
July 6, 2026	EXPLOIT PUBLISHED	EXPLOIT PUBLISHED — CVE-2026-49297 (Apache Software Foundation Apache Airflow Google provider). Public exploit reference added.
July 6, 2026	Published	Published (CNA: apache)

Affected

Affected products and packages — 1 row
Vendor	Product / Package	Ecosystem	Version introduced	Fixed
Apache Software Foundation	Apache Airflow Google provider	—	—	—

Weaknesses

CWE-22

References (3)

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/07/04/8 [Mailing List, Third Party Advisory]
https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/67667 [Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch]
https://lists.apache.org/thread/cb5nvoxsj1q7rv878cyqgtg150w0zglq?users@airflow.apache.org [Mailing List, Vendor Advisory]

Authoritative record: CVE-2026-49297 at cve.org

Vendors: apache

Weaknesses: CWE-22

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