{"cve":"CVE-2026-68969","nvd":{"published":"2026-08-12T16:17:19.730","modified":"2026-10-24T16:10:00.153","status":"Analyzed","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.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N","score":6.5},"cwes":["CWE-532"],"references":["https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/70890","https://lists.apache.org/thread/p3jr90jgp2brto4vwcrx680f3x11y70c","https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-50204"],"products":["apache:airflow"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-24T16:53:35.584907681+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2026-68969","score":0.00358,"percentile":0.29273,"date":"2026-10-25"},"kev":null,"osv":[{"id":"GHSA-cjv4-7hp2-2x9h","url":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-cjv4-7hp2-2x9h","summary":"Apache Airflow bulk endpoints log Variable and Connection secrets in cleartext","modified":"2026-10-02T23:40:53.136219984Z","packages":[{"ecosystem":"PyPI","name":"apache-airflow","purl":"pkg:pypi/apache-airflow","ranges":["<3.3.1"],"fixed":["3.3.1"]}]},{"id":"PYSEC-2026-3711","url":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/PYSEC-2026-3711","summary":"","modified":"2026-10-15T14:45:05.425709031Z","packages":[{"ecosystem":"PyPI","name":"apache-airflow","purl":"pkg:pypi/apache-airflow","ranges":["<3.3.1"],"fixed":["3.3.1"]}]}],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}