Advisory severityMedium6.5Apache Software Foundation

Medium [CVE-2026-68868] Apache Airflow Google provider: google Secret Manager backend: team scope is never applied, exposing every team's Connections and Variables

This medium-severity Apache Software Foundation advisory covers CVE-2026-68868 affecting Apache Airflow.

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CVE-2026-68868 Source published Aug 12, 2026Source updated Sep 16, 2026

VulniPulse record published Aug 12, 2026Record updated Sep 16, 2026

CVE-2026-68868

Affected products & platforms

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Summary

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.

Affected product named by the advisory: Apache Airflow Google provider.

Affected versions

Apache Airflow Google provider before 22.3.0

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Fixed versions

22.3.0

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Mitigation checklist

Recommended fix / mitigation

Users are advised to upgrade to apache-airflow-providers-google 22.3.0 or later, which builds and applies the team-scoped secret name.

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