Severity: moderate 

Affected versions:

- Apache Airflow Keycloak provider (apache-airflow-providers-keycloak) before 
0.10.0

Description:

Apache Airflow Keycloak provider: from Airflow 3.3 the Keycloak auth manager 
takes a user's identity from the signed Airflow session token but takes the 
Keycloak access and refresh tokens used for every authorization decision from 
separate, unauthenticated cookies, and never checks that the two describe the 
same subject. A user who holds any valid Airflow login of their own, together 
with another subject's Keycloak access or refresh token obtained out of band, 
can pair the two: Airflow then authorizes requests with the foreign token's 
privileges while the session identity, audit log and cache keys continue to 
name the attacker's own account. The refresh path re-issues an Airflow session 
token for the original identity carrying the foreign tokens, so the mismatched 
pairing survives across sessions.

Affects deployments running Airflow 3.3 or later with the Keycloak auth 
manager. Earlier versions carried the Keycloak tokens inside the signed session 
token, so the binding existed and was lost when they moved into separate 
cookies.

Users of apache-airflow-providers-keycloak are recommended to upgrade to 
version 0.10.0 or later, which binds the cookie-supplied tokens to the session 
identity.

Credit:

Claude Security Scans (tool)
Jarek Potiuk (remediation developer)

References:

https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/72207
https://airflow.apache.org/
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-76186

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