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Medium · 6.5 CVE-2026-48892 BIT-airflow-2026-48892EUVD-2026-42024GHSA-9933-5rrp-mfwxPYSEC-2026-2087

Apache Airflow: Config API leaks per-key secrets backend kwargs - masker bypass on synthetic options

Published Jul 7, 2026 · Updated Nov 3, 2026 · Assigned by apache

Description

The Config API in Apache Airflow surfaced per-key secrets-backend overrides (environment variables like `AIRFLOW__SECRETS__BACKEND_KWARG__SECRET_ID` and `AIRFLOW__WORKERS__SECRETS_BACKEND_KWARG__SECRET_ID`) as synthetic config options whose option names were not in `sensitive_config_values`, so the masker did not redact them. An authenticated UI/API user with Config read permission could retrieve plaintext secrets-backend credentials (Vault `role_id` / `secret_id`, etc.) from the Config API output. Affects deployments that configure secrets backends via per-key environment overrides. Users are advised to upgrade to `apache-airflow` 3.3.0 or later.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Apache Software Foundation Apache Airflow < 3.0.0, 3.0.0 – < 3.3.0 3.0.0

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
PyPI apache-airflow < 3.3.0 3.3.0 GHSA-9933-5rrp-mfwx

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