GitHub Advisoryadvisory · PyPI

GHSA-cg3x-89rc-x9mw Apache Airflow vulnerable to Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

MEDIUM Published 2026-06-01 Modified 2026-07-09 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2026-42360
Ecosystem
PyPI
Packages
apache-airflow
Severity
Moderate
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-200
Reviewed
2026-07-09

Affected packages

• PyPI apache-airflow: < 3.2.2 → fixed in 3.2.2

Description

A bug in Apache Airflow's rendered-template field handling caused nested sensitive-key masking (e.g. nested `password` / `token` / `secret` / `api_key` keys inside a JSON template structure) to be bypassed when the rendered field exceeded `[core] max_templated_field_length`: Airflow stringified the structure before redaction, losing the nested key context, and persisted the plaintext value into `rendered_fields`. An authenticated UI/API user with permission to read rendered template fields could harvest secret values intended to be masked. Affects deployments where Dag authors pass structured JSON to operators with nested sensitive keys. This is a variant of `CWE-200` previously addressed for the user-registered `mask_secret()` patterns in CVE-2025-68438; that fix did not cover the nested sensitive-keyword allowlist. Users who already upgraded for CVE-2025-68438 should additionally upgrade to `apache-airflow` 3.2.2 or later to cover the nested-key path.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2026-42360 A bug in Apache Airflow's rendered-template field handling caused nested sensitive-key masking (e.g. vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor weakness

References