🛡️ CVE-2026-32690 — airflow

🟢 CVSS 2.0 — Low ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-668 OSV
2.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Apache Airflow: 3.x - Nested Variable Secret Values Bypass Redaction via max_depth=1

Secrets in Variables saved as JSON dictionaries were not properly redacted - in case thee variables were retrieved by the user the secrets stored as nested fields were not masked.

If you do not store variables with sensitive values in JSON form, you are not affected. Otherwise please upgrade to Apache Airflow 3.2.0 that has the fix implemented

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality low, integrity none, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2026-32690 is classified as CWE-668: Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere. A resource is made reachable from a context that should not have access to it.

Affected software

CVE-2026-32690 is recorded against 3 packages.

  • airflow
  • apache-airflow (from 3.0.0 up to 3.2.0)
  • apache-airflow-core (from 3.0.0 up to 3.2.0)

Timeline and source

Published on 21 April 2026 and last revised on 13 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

www.openwall.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
lists.apache.org (Web)
nvd.nist.gov (Web)

Details

Severity LOW
CVSS Score 2.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CWE CWE-668
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2026-04-21
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-07-13
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
airflow
apache-airflow 3.0.0 3.2.0
apache-airflow-core 3.0.0 3.2.0

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