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.
Affected products
apache: apache-airflow-providers-akeyless
References6
- github.com/apache/airflow/pull/72646 Issue TrackingVendor Advisory
- lists.apache.org/thread/vczt5xgqjv8ot8fpp1vdq3rmnfm50w0g Mailing ListVendor Advisory
- lists.apache.org/thread/vczt5xgqjv8ot8fpp1vdq3rmnfm50w0g?users@… Mailing ListVendor Advisory
- www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68870 Not Applicable
- www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68871 Not Applicable
- www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68872 Not Applicable
Metrics
- CVSS 3.1
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6.5
MEDIUM
Score source: NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N - EPSS — exploit probability
- 1% percentile: 57 · as of 7 November 2026
- CWE
- CWE-639
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