CVE-2026-68076Apache Airflow: Connections test API: team-scope guard bypass resolves another team's environment Connection
- 5.4MediumCVSS base score
- 0.34%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 72% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By apache
- 13 days later
· 13 days later
Published
- 3 months later
· 3 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | Medium5.4 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium5.4 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.34% · top 72% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.4.
Affected products
Apache Software Foundation · Apache Airflow
- affected < 3.0.0
Apache Software Foundation · Apache Airflow
- affected 3.0.0 – < 3.3.1
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- PyPIapache-airflowGHSA-75mg-c62r-v95g (opens in a new tab)
References
References5
- https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/70736 (opens in a new tab)patch
- https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/70886 (opens in a new tab)patch
- https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/70902 (opens in a new tab)patch
- https://lists.apache.org/thread/v4mc51dgmrc1t82mhzsngsgzo2gxsf2l (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/08/12/11 (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2026-57265 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-75mg-c62r-v95g (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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