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.

Project Subscriptions

Vendors Products
Airflow Fab Provider Subscribe
Advisories

No advisories yet.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.


Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

History

Wed, 16 Sep 2026 15:00:00 +0000


Wed, 16 Sep 2026 13:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Apache
Apache airflow Fab Provider
Vendors & Products Apache
Apache airflow Fab Provider

Wed, 16 Sep 2026 09:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description 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.
Title Apache Airflow FAB provider: FAB password reset never invalidates sessions: string/int _user_id comparison is always false
Weaknesses CWE-613
References

Projects

Sign in to view the affected projects.

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: apache

Published:

Updated: 2026-09-16T14:54:52.025Z

Reserved: 2026-08-28T12:58:33.571Z

Link: CVE-2026-82311

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-09-16T09:17:06.430

Modified: 2026-09-16T15:17:54.600

Link: CVE-2026-82311

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-09-16T14:00:11Z

Weaknesses