{"id":"CVE-2026-68969","title":"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`)","summary":"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 rec…","severity":"medium","cvss":6.5,"cvssVector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N","cwe":["CWE-532"],"vendor":"apache","product":"airflow","affected":["airflow < 3.3.1"],"patched":["airflow 3.3.1"],"published":"2026-08-12","updated":"2026-09-16","sourceUpdated":"2026-09-16T15:17:42.090","source":"NVD","sourceUrl":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-68969","references":[{"url":"https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/70890","label":"security@apache.org"},{"url":"https://lists.apache.org/thread/p3jr90jgp2brto4vwcrx680f3x11y70c","label":"security@apache.org"},{"url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-50204","label":"security@apache.org"}],"tags":["nvd","cve.org","osv","pip"],"ssvc":{"exploitation":"none","automatable":"no","technicalImpact":"partial","timestamp":"2026-08-13T12:11:21.550820Z"},"epss":0.00358,"epssPercentile":0.29592,"aliases":["PYSEC-2026-3711","BIT-airflow-2026-68969"],"ecosystem":"pip","ingestedAt":"2026-08-19T19:22:21.496Z","slug":"CVE-2026-68969","body":"## Overview\n\nApache 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.\n\n## Affected\n\n- `airflow < 3.3.1`\n\n## Remediation\n\nUpgrade past the affected range:\n\n- `airflow 3.3.1`\n\n## Package advisory (CVE-2026-68969)\n\nAffected packages:\n\n- `apache-airflow < 3.3.1`\n\nPatched in:\n\n- `apache-airflow 3.3.1`\n\nSource: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/PYSEC-2026-3711","depth":"sunlit","depthScore":36,"depthScoreParts":{"impact":35.8,"likelihood":0.1,"exploitation":0,"ransomware":0},"changes":[]}