Severity: moderate 

Affected versions:

- Apache Airflow FAB provider (apache-airflow-providers-fab) 3.2.0 before 3.9.0

Description:

Apache Airflow FAB provider: changing a user's password through the Admin 
user-edit PATCH endpoint does not invalidate that user's existing 
database-backed sessions. An attacker who already holds a copy of the victim's 
session cookie keeps full access as that user after the password change, so the 
password reset does not evict them. Affects deployments using the FAB auth 
manager with database-backed sessions; an administrator (or the user 
themselves) performing a routine password change is the trigger, and no 
attacker interaction with the endpoint is needed.

This is a second, independent route to the outcome addressed by CVE-2026-82311, 
which corrected an identifier comparison in the session-invalidation helper. 
That fix does not repair this endpoint, because the PATCH path never calls the 
helper at all. Deployments that applied the CVE-2026-82311 fix 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.

Credit:

OpenSec Intelligence (finder)
Jarek Potiuk (remediation developer)

References:

https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/72657
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-82311
https://airflow.apache.org/
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-86462

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