Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb
Apache Airflow's Task SDK did not mask the contents of a Variable whose JSON value is a list, so secrets stored in that shape appeared in cleartext in task logs and in the Rendered Templates UI. Masking was applied only when the deserialized value was a string or a dict; a list at the top level matched neither and was returned unmasked. Any authenticated user able to read the logs or rendered templates of a task that references such a Variable could recover the values, with no special configuration required. This is the list-shaped counterpart of CVE-2026-59244, whose fix covered the dict case 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.
{
"affected": [
{
"package": {
"ecosystem": "Bitnami",
"name": "airflow",
"purl": "pkg:bitnami/airflow"
},
"ranges": [
{
"events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
"fixed": "3.3.1"
}
],
"type": "SEMVER"
}
],
"severity": [
{
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
}
]
}
],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2026-68970"
],
"database_specific": {
"cpes": [
"cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
],
"severity": "Medium"
},
"details": "Apache Airflow\u0027s Task SDK did not mask the contents of a Variable whose JSON value is a list, so secrets stored in that shape appeared in cleartext in task logs and in the Rendered Templates UI. Masking was applied only when the deserialized value was a string or a dict; a list at the top level matched neither and was returned unmasked. Any authenticated user able to read the logs or rendered templates of a task that references such a Variable could recover the values, with no special configuration required. This is the list-shaped counterpart of CVE-2026-59244, whose fix covered the dict case 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.",
"id": "BIT-airflow-2026-68970",
"modified": "2026-08-17T06:10:32.268Z",
"published": "2026-08-17T05:39:31.799Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/70891"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://lists.apache.org/thread/kkrlnbsk47oght4h38mcd3h2kcb8dt28"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-68970"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-59244"
}
],
"schema_version": "1.6.2",
"summary": "Apache Airflow: Values of a list-shaped Variable are not masked in task logs and the Rendered Templates UI"
}
Sightings
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Nomenclature
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