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GHSA-33g2-gx67-c2h3: Apache Airflow Vulnerable to Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

mediumCVSS 6.5CVE-2026-42358
A bug in Apache Airflow's Variable response masker caused nested-key redaction (triggered by secret-suffixed key names like password, token, secret, api_key) to be bypassed when the JSON value's nesting depth exceeded the shared secrets masker's recursion limit: the masker returned the original nested item before checking the sensitive key name. An authenticated UI/API user with Variable read permission could harvest plaintext secret values stored under sensitive keys nested deep enough to exceed the masker's depth cap. Affects deployments that store sensitive values inside deeply-nested JSON Variables. This is a residual gap in the fix for CVE-2026-32690 (which covered shallower nesting via max_depth=1); the depth-limit boundary itself was not raised, so the same key-name bypass pattern reappears beyond the recursion cap. Users who already upgraded for CVE-2026-32690 should additionally upgrade to apache-airflow 3.2.2 or later to cover the deep-nesting path.

Details

Source
GitHub Security Advisories (INTL · database · site)
Severity
medium — CVSS 6.5
Published
2026-06-01
Last updated
2026-07-09
Exploitation
Not in CISA KEV at last sync

Original advisory: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-33g2-gx67-c2h3

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Referenced CVEs

CVECSIRTS overviewExternal
CVE-2026-42358coverage & exploitation statusNVD · CVE.org

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