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.
Affected products
apache: apache-airflow-providers-fab
References4
- github.com/apache/airflow/pull/72657 PatchVendor Advisory
- lists.apache.org/thread/7sr4sggfv5fhhl3qgphcq0rlhg81do1s Mailing ListVendor Advisory
- lists.apache.org/thread/7sr4sggfv5fhhl3qgphcq0rlhg81do1s?users@… Vendor Advisory
- www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-82311 US Government Resource
Metrics
- CVSS 3.1
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9.1
CRITICAL
Score source: CNA
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N - EPSS — exploit probability
- 1% percentile: 58 · as of 7 November 2026
- CWE
- CWE-613
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