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.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - 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. (CVE-2026-68969)

ID	Name	Product	Family	Type	Severity
472763	Echo: apache-airflow: security update to 3.3.1	Tenable Cloud Security	Echo Local Security Checks	Local	medium
472763	Echo: apache-airflow: security update to 3.3.1	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	Echo Local Security Checks	Local	medium
472009	SCA: security update for apache-airflow (GHSA-cjv4-7hp2-2x9h)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	Local	medium
472009	SCA: security update for apache-airflow (GHSA-cjv4-7hp2-2x9h)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	Local	medium

Detections

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CVE-2026-68969

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Tenable Plugins

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