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Medium · 5.9 CVE-2026-41016 EUVD-2026-26359GHSA-x8mh-94wc-33gvPYSEC-2026-24

Apache Airflow Providers SMTP: No certificate validation on SMTP STARTTLS connections in SMTP provider

Published Apr 30, 2026 · Updated Apr 30, 2026 · Assigned by apache

Description

Apache Airflow's SMTP provider `SmtpHook` called Python's `smtplib.SMTP.starttls()` without an SSL context, so no certificate validation was performed on the TLS upgrade. A man-in-the-middle between the Airflow worker and the SMTP server could present a self-signed certificate, complete the STARTTLS upgrade, and capture the SMTP credentials sent during the subsequent `login()` call. Users are advised to upgrade to the `apache-airflow-providers-smtp` version that contains the fix.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Apache Software Foundation Apache Airflow Providers SMTP 2.0.0 – < 3.0.0 3.0.0

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

Wolfi

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Wolfi rolling airflow-3 3.2.1-r4 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
PyPI apache-airflow-providers-smtp >= 2.0.0, < 3.0.0 3.0.0 GHSA-x8mh-94wc-33gv

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