Vulnerability Details CVE-2026-82311
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.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.01
EPSS Ranking 61.1%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 9.8
Products affected by CVE-2026-82311
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:apache-airflow-providers-fab:2.4.2
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:apache-airflow-providers-fab:2.4.3
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:apache-airflow-providers-fab:2.4.4
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:apache-airflow-providers-fab:3.0.0
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:apache-airflow-providers-fab:3.0.1
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:apache-airflow-providers-fab:3.0.2
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:apache-airflow-providers-fab:3.0.3
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:apache-airflow-providers-fab:3.1.0
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:apache-airflow-providers-fab:3.1.1
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:apache-airflow-providers-fab:3.1.2
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:apache-airflow-providers-fab:3.2.0
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:apache-airflow-providers-fab:3.3.0
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:apache-airflow-providers-fab:3.4.0
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:apache-airflow-providers-fab:3.5.0
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:apache-airflow-providers-fab:3.6.0
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:apache-airflow-providers-fab:3.6.1
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:apache-airflow-providers-fab:3.6.2
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:apache-airflow-providers-fab:3.6.3
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:apache-airflow-providers-fab:3.6.4
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:apache-airflow-providers-fab:3.6.5
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:apache-airflow-providers-fab:3.7.0
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:apache-airflow-providers-fab:3.7.1
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:apache-airflow-providers-fab:3.7.2
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:apache-airflow-providers-fab:3.7.3
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:apache-airflow-providers-fab:3.8.0
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:apache-airflow-providers-fab:3.8.1