SCA: security update for apache-airflow (GHSA-cjv4-7hp2-2x9h)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 472009

Description

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)

Solution

Update the apache-airflow library and its related packages to version 3.3.1 or later.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 472009

Version: Revision 1.1

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 10/3/2026

Updated: 10/3/2026

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.72

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-68969

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/12/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/12/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-68969

cwe: CWE-532

Detections

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