Vulnerability GHSA-75mg-c62r-v95g

Medium Risk
MEDIUM RISK
CVSS Score: 5.4
Score Range: 4.0–6.9
Medium severity vulnerabilities (CVSS 4.0–6.9). Important issues that meaningfully reduce security confidence.
1 month ago
August 12, 2026 at 06:31 PM UTC
Apache Airflow environment-variable secrets backend permits cross-team credential use
1.8.1 - 3.3.1rc2
1.8.1 - 3.3.1rc2

Summary

Apache Airflow environment-variable secrets backend permits cross-team credential use

Details

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.

Impacted packages

Timeline

Published
1 month ago
August 12, 2026 at 06:31 PM UTC
Fixed (3.3.1)
1 month ago
August 12, 2026 at 08:10 AM UTC
Last Modified
9 hours ago
October 02, 2026 at 11:40 PM UTC