The Config API in Apache Airflow surfaced per-key secrets-backend overrides (environment variables like AIRFLOWSECRETSBACKENDKWARGSECRETID…
CVE-2026-48892
The Config API in Apache Airflow surfaced per-key secrets-backend overrides (environment variables like AIRFLOWSECRETSBACKENDKWARGSECRETID and AIRFLOWWORKERSSECRETSBACKENDKWARGSECRETID) as synthetic config options whose option names were not in sensitiveconfigvalues, so the masker did not redact them. An authenticated UI/API user with Config read permission could retrieve plaintext secrets-backend credentials (Vault roleid / secretid, etc.) from the Config API output. Affects deployments that configure secrets backends via per-key environment overrides. Users are advised to upgrade to apache-airflow 3.3.0 or later.
Assessment
- CVSS
- 6.5 (v3.1)
- Severity
- Medium
- EPSS
- 0.66% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Known exploited
- Not listed in CISA KEV
- Exploit availability
- Nothing found in Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei or public PoC repositories
- Published
- 7 July 2026
- Last updated
- 3 November 2026
- Affected
- Apache Software Foundation · Apache Airflow
- Assigner
- apache
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
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