Vulnerability Details CVE-2026-68969
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.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.002
EPSS Ranking 5.1%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 6.5
Products affected by CVE-2026-68969
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:-
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:0.1
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:0.2
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:0.2.1
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:0.2.2
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:0.2.3
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:0.3
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:0.3.1
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:0.3.2
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:0.4
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:0.4.1
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:0.4.2
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:0.4.3
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:0.4.5
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:0.4.6
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:0.5.0
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:1.0.0
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:1.0.1
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:1.1.0
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:1.1.1
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:1.10.0
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:1.10.1
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:1.10.10
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:1.10.11
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:1.10.12
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:1.10.13
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:1.10.14
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:1.10.15
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:1.10.2
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:1.10.5
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:1.10.6
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:1.10.7
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:1.10.8
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:1.10.9
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:1.2.0
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:1.3.0
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:1.4.0
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:1.4.1
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:1.5.0
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:1.5.1
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:1.5.2
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:1.6.0
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:1.6.1
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:1.6.2
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:1.7.0
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:1.7.1
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:1.7.1.1
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:1.7.1.2
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:1.7.1.3
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:1.8.0
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:1.8.1
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:1.8.2
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:1.9.0
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:2.0.0
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:2.0.1
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:2.0.2
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:2.1.0
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:2.1.1
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:2.1.2
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:2.1.3
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:2.1.4
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:2.10.0
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:2.10.1
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:2.10.2
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:2.10.3
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:2.10.4
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:2.10.5
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:2.11.0
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:2.11.1
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:2.2.0
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:2.2.1
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:2.2.2
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:2.2.3
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:2.2.4
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:2.2.5
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:2.3.0
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:2.3.1
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:2.3.3
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:2.3.4
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:2.4.0
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:2.4.1
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:2.4.3
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:2.5.0
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:2.6.0
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:2.6.1
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:2.6.2
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:2.6.3
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:2.7.0
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:2.7.1
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:2.7.2
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:2.7.3
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:2.8.0
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:2.8.1
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:2.8.2
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:2.8.3
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:2.8.4
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:2.9.0
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:2.9.1
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:2.9.2
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:2.9.3
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:3.0.0
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:3.0.1
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:3.0.2
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:3.0.3
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:3.0.4
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:3.0.5
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:3.0.6
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:3.1.0
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:3.1.1
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:3.1.2
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:3.1.3
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:3.1.4
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:3.1.5
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:3.1.6
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:3.1.7
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:3.1.8
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:3.2.0
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:3.2.1
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:3.2.2
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cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:3.3.0