Affects widely-used Airflow SFTP provider; enables arbitrary file writes from untrusted SFTP server, risking disruption of pipelines.
CVE-2026-50203
Path traversal in Airflow SFTP provider enables writes outside dest.
Is CVE-2026-50203 being exploited?
Not confirmed. CVE-2026-50203 does not appear in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, which records only exploitation that has been observed and reported publicly. That is evidence of absence of a report, not evidence the flaw is unattacked. EPSS currently estimates a 0.63% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.
How severe is CVE-2026-50203?
CVE-2026-50203 is rated Critical with a CVSS score of 9.1. Severity describes how bad exploitation would be, not how likely it is: pair it with exploitation evidence before deciding what to patch first.
Is there a patch for CVE-2026-50203?
Yes. A fix has been recorded for CVE-2026-50203. The vendor advisory is the authority on the exact fixed version — apply it from there rather than from a summary.
What does CVE-2026-50203 affect?
CVE-2026-50203 affects apache-airflow-providers-sftp, Apache Airflow. Confirm the exact affected versions against the vendor advisory before deciding you are exposed.
What should I do about CVE-2026-50203?
Upgrade to 5.8.1+ immediately.
Exploitation status reflects CISA's KEV catalog as we last synced it. Check the catalog directly.
Untrusted SFTP server can write files outside the configured local directory, risking data tampering or overwrites.
Immediate action required
- affected< 5.8.1
As published in the CVE Program record. A version outside these ranges is not a statement that it is unaffected — vendors sometimes understate a range, and distribution-backported builds carry upstream numbers that do not reflect what was patched into them.