Medium severity · published Aug 12, 2026
CVE-2026-68868
Apache Airflow Google provider: google Secret Manager backend: team scope is never applied, exposing every team's Connections and Variables
6.5
CVSS
0.6%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
The Google Cloud Secret Manager secrets backend in Apache Airflow's Google provider never applied the team scope when resolving Connections and Variables: the caller's `team_name` was accepted by the backend but dropped at the internal call boundary, so every lookup resolved against the team-agnostic secret name. In a deployment running multi-team mode with this backend, a task or Dag belonging to one team resolved another team's Connection or Variable, obtaining its credentials in full. No unusual configuration is required beyond enabling multi-team mode and using this backend. Users are advised to upgrade to apache-airflow-providers-google 22.3.0 or later, which builds and applies the team-scoped secret name.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.6% · higher than 48% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
AA
Apache Airflow Google provider · Apache Software Foundation
before 22.3.0 · source: vendor
AP
Apache-airflow-providers-google · Apache
before 22.3.0 · source: NVD
Affected product
AA
Apache Airflow Google provider
Apache Software Foundation
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-68868
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68868
Issue Tracking
https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/70869
Mailing List
https://lists.apache.org/thread/03h5y0fmqlh0yf055zlocxh591ozx69x
Mailing List
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/08/12/3
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