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CVE-2026-68076
Published:August 12, 2026
Updated:August 31, 2026
Apache Airflow's environment-variable secrets backend resolved a team-scoped Connection or Variable from the wrong team's scope. The guard meant to prevent this only ran when no team scope was supplied, and its pattern could not match a team name containing an underscore, which team names are allowed to contain. When the guard did not apply, the lookup fell through to an unconditional global read that resolved the stored "AIRFLOW_CONN__<TEAM>___<ID>" variable regardless of which team asked. In multi-team mode an authenticated user of one team could therefore have "POST /api/v2/connections/test" resolve another team's Connection and authenticate outward with that team's credentials; the endpoint uses the credentials rather than returning them. Exploitation requires "[core] multi_team" enabled, "[core] test_connection" set to "Enabled" (it ships "Disabled"), team-scoped secrets provisioned as environment variables in the API-server process, and knowledge of the encoded identifier. Redirecting the test at an attacker-controlled host is separately blocked. Users are advised to upgrade to apache-airflow 3.3.1 or later.
Affected Packages
apache-airflow (CONDA):
Affected version(s) >=2.0.1 <3.3.1
Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 3.3.1
https://github.com/apache/airflow.git (GITHUB):
Affected version(s) >=3.0.0 <3.3.1
Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 3.3.1
apache-airflow (PYTHON):
Affected version(s) >=1.8.1 <3.3.1
Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 3.3.1
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CVSS v4
Base Score:
5.3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Attack Requirements
NONE
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Vulnerable System Confidentiality
LOW
Vulnerable System Integrity
NONE
Vulnerable System Availability
LOW
Subsequent System Confidentiality
NONE
Subsequent System Integrity
NONE
Subsequent System Availability
NONE
CVSS v3
Base Score:
5.4
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
LOW
Integrity
NONE
Availability
LOW
Weakness Type (CWE)
Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
EPSS
Base Score:
0.34