Apache Airflow: Bulk Variable and Connection endpoints record secret values in the audit log in cleartext
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GHSA-cjv4-7hp2-2x9h | Apache Airflow bulk endpoints log Variable and Connection secrets in cleartext |
No CVSS v4.0
No CVSS v3.0
No CVSS v2
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
Exploit prediction score: < 1% (0.358% probability within 30 days)
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| CPEs | cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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cvssV3_1
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Apache
Apache airflow |
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Apache
Apache airflow |
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| Description | Apache Airflow wrote Variable values and Connection `extra` contents to the audit log in cleartext when they were submitted through the bulk endpoints (`PATCH /api/v2/variables` and `PATCH /api/v2/connections`). The audit-log masking recognised only top-level request fields, and a bulk request nests its entities two levels below, so no masking was applied to them. Any authenticated user with audit-log read access -- who need not hold Variables or Connections read at all -- could recover those secrets verbatim, and the Connection `extra` copy is stored unencrypted in the log while the connection table encrypts it. The Airflow UI's *Import Variables* action posts to this endpoint, so an ordinary operator import wrote every secret in the file to the log. This is a different code path from CVE-2026-50204: that fix shipped in 3.3.0 and covers the single-entity endpoints 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. | |
| Title | Apache Airflow: Bulk Variable and Connection endpoints record secret values in the audit log in cleartext | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-532 | |
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