CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-45361

HighCVSS 8.1
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.59%

45th percentile - higher than 45% of all known CVEs

Summary

A vulnerability in Apache Airflow providers-google causes `ComputeEngineSSHHook` to disable SSH host-key verification by default, exposing SSH traffic between an Airflow worker and a Compute Engine VM to man-in-the-middle attacks. An in-path network attacker can intercept or modify the SSH session.

Risk Assessment

The organization risks unauthorized access to sensitive data transmitted over SSH and potential remote code execution on Compute Engine VMs by a network attacker.

Recommendation

Immediately upgrade the `apache-airflow-providers-google` package to version 22.0.0 or later, which enables SSH host-key verification by default.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

Apache Airflow providers-google's `ComputeEngineSSHHook` disables SSH host-key verification by default, exposing SSH traffic between an Airflow worker and a Compute Engine VM to in-path network attackers who can intercept or modify the session. Users are advised to upgrade to `apache-airflow-providers-google` 22.0.0 or later.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS