CVE-2026-27173 (GCVE-0-2026-27173)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-19 19:19 – Updated: 2026-05-19 19:57
VLAI
Title
Apache Airflow CNCF Kubernetes provider: JWT Token Exposure in KubernetesExecutor Command-Line Arguments
Summary
JWT tokens that were used by workers in Kubernetes Executors have been exposed to users who had read only access to Kuberentes Pods. This could allow users with just read-only access to perform actions that were only available to running tasks via Task SDK and potentially allow to modify state of Airflow Database for tasks.
Severity
8.7 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-05-19 19:56 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-538 - Insertion of Sensitive Information into Externally-Accessible File or Directory
Assigner
apache CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard B 76/100 over 936 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Apache Software Foundation Apache Airflow CNCF Kubernetes provider Affected: 0 , < 10.17.0 (semver)
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Credits
Nikolai Dvoinishnikov, Welltory Anton Kuznetsov, Welltory Anish Giri
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