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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.4

CVE-2026-68076 json

Apache Airflow: Connections test API: team-scope guard bypass resolves another team's environment Connection

published 2026-08-12 2 mo ago modified 2026-11-03 6 d ago also BIT-airflow-2026-68076 , EUVD-2026-57265 , GHSA-75mg-c62r-v95g , PYSEC-2026-3709

cvss
5.4
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 27%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • pypi apache-airflow 3.3.1
  • bitnami airflow 3.3.1
  • Apache Software Foundation Apache Airflow 3.0.0, 3.3.1

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.34% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 27% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CISA ADP 3.1 5.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L
GitHub 3.1 5.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L
CNA 3.1 5.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L
OSV 3.1 5.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
pypi apache-airflow
<3.3.1
3.3.1
bitnami airflow
<3.3.1
3.3.1

Affected products

  • Apache Software Foundation Apache Airflow

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-639 Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key

References

Sources

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