Description
Apache Airflow Akeyless provider: the Akeyless secrets backend's team-scope guard can be bypassed with a user-controlled key. In a multi-team deployment, a Dag author scoped to one team can supply a Variable key containing a path separator that causes the backend to resolve a secret belonging to a different team, because the lookup path is concatenated from an unvalidated key after the team-scoped lookup misses. The Execution API Variables route accepts a path-shaped key, so this is reachable from ordinary Dag code.
Affects multi-team deployments using the Akeyless secrets backend. Single-team deployments are not affected, as there is no cross-team boundary to cross. This is the same class as CVE-2026-68870, CVE-2026-68871 and CVE-2026-68872 in the Azure Key Vault, Yandex Lockbox and Amazon secrets backends.
Users of apache-airflow-providers-akeyless are recommended to upgrade to version 0.3.1 or later, which fixes the issue.
Metrics
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NWeakness enumeration
Affected software
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Apache Software Foundation | Apache Airflow Akeyless provider | < 0.3.1 |
References
- https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/72646Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.apache.org/thread/vczt5xgqjv8ot8fpp1vdq3rmnfm50w0gMailing List, Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.apache.org/thread/vczt5xgqjv8ot8fpp1vdq3rmnfm50w0g?users@airflow.apache.orgMailing List, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68870Not Applicable
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68871Not Applicable
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68872Not Applicable
Timeline
- Published
- Sep 16, 2026
- Last modified
- Sep 17, 2026
- NVD status
- Modified