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Apache Airflow: Bulk Variable and Connection endpoints record secret values in the audit log in cleartext

Type: advisorySource: OSV1 source record

Apache Airflow wrote Variable values and Connection `extra` contents to the audit log in cleartext when they were submitted through the bulk endpoints (`PATCH /api/v2/variables` and `PATCH /api/v2/connections`). The audit-log masking recognised only top-level request fields, and a bulk request nests its entities two levels below, so no masking was applied to them. Any authenticated user with audit-log read access -- who need not hold Variables or Connections read at all -- could recover those secrets verbatim, and the Connection `extra` copy is stored unencrypted in the log while the connection table encrypts it. The Airflow UI's *Import Variables* action posts to this endpoint, so an ordinary operator import wrote every secret in the file to the log. This is a different code path from CVE-2026-50204: that fix shipped in 3.3.0 and covers the single-entity endpoints 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.

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BIT-airflow-2026-68969

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Security context

Source reference: osv:BIT-airflow-2026-68969

airflow

Source reference: /affected/0/package/name

Affected versions
Not stated in this record
Fixed versions
3.3.1

Source reference: /affected/0/ranges

Prerequisites
Not stated in this record

Structured affected-version data

Original package identities and version rules from this source.

[
  {
    "ranges": [
      {
        "type": "SEMVER",
        "events": [
          {
            "introduced": "0"
          },
          {
            "fixed": "3.3.1"
          }
        ]
      }
    ],
    "package": {
      "name": "airflow",
      "purl": "pkg:bitnami/airflow",
      "ecosystem": "Bitnami"
    },
    "severity": [
      {
        "type": "CVSS_V3",
        "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N"
      }
    ],
    "database_specific": {
      "source": "https://github.com/bitnami/vulndb/tree/main/data/airflow/BIT-airflow-2026-68969.json"
    }
  }
]
Related CVEs
CVE-2026-68969

Source reference: /aliases

Publisher severity

medium

Source reference: /database_specific/severity

Event
#72789 · Revision 1
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