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CVE-2026-68970

Apache Airflow: Values of a list-shaped Variable are not masked in task logs and the Rendered Templates UI

Products / packages Apache Software Foundation Apache Airflow

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Severity and exploitation

Not in CISA KEV

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KEV checked 15/11/2026, 01:40:32 UTC
CISA-ADP · CVSS:3.1 · 6.5
Assessment vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Severity

medium6.5

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Known exploitation

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Public exploit

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Remediation

Fix status not established

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What this means

Apache Airflow versions before 3.3.1 are affected by a vulnerability where list-shaped Variable values are not masked in task logs and the Rendered Templates UI, allowing authenticated users to recover sensitive information. The weakness is due to cleartext storage of sensitive information. Any authenticated user can exploit this vulnerability.

Summarized by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast. Verify details against the original sources.

Attack conditions

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Affected versions

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Apache Software Foundation · apache

Apache Airflow

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affected

0 → before 3.0.0

semver versions

unaffected

unknown

Other versions: unaffected

Apache Software Foundation · apache

Apache Airflow

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affected

3.0.0 → before 3.3.1

semver versions

unaffected

unknown

Other versions: unaffected

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Public exploit evidence

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Original source description

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Apache Airflow's Task SDK did not mask the contents of a Variable whose JSON value is a list, so secrets stored in that shape appeared in cleartext in task logs and in the Rendered Templates UI. Masking was applied only when the deserialized value was a string or a dict; a list at the top level matched neither and was returned unmasked. Any authenticated user able to read the logs or rendered templates of a task that references such a Variable could recover the values, with no special configuration required. This is the list-shaped counterpart of CVE-2026-59244, whose fix covered the dict case only, so deployments that upgraded in response to that advisory remain affected and must upgrade again. Users are advised to upgrade to apache-airflow 3.3.1 or later.

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CVE-2026-68970

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Underlying weaknesses

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CWE-312 ↗

CWE-312: Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information

apache

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apache

Assigning organization

2026-11-03
CISA-ADP

Additional data publisher

2026-08-12

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