Advisory severityMedium6.5Apache Software Foundation

Medium [CVE-2026-68872] Apache Airflow Amazon provider: amazon SSM / Secrets Manager backends: team-scope guard bypass resolves another team's Connection or Variable

This medium-severity Apache Software Foundation advisory covers CVE-2026-68872 affecting Apache Airflow.

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CVE-2026-68872 Source published Aug 10, 2026Source updated Sep 16, 2026

VulniPulse record published Aug 10, 2026Record updated Sep 16, 2026

CVE-2026-68872

Affected products & platforms

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Summary

The AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store and Secrets Manager backends in Apache Airflow's Amazon provider resolved a team-scoped Connection or Variable id through the team-agnostic lookup when the team-scoped lookup missed.

In a deployment running multi-team mode with either backend, a caller in one team could resolve a secret belonging to another team by supplying an id that spells out that team's namespace, obtaining its credentials in full. No unusual configuration is required beyond enabling multi-team mode and using one of these backends.

Users are advised to upgrade to apache-airflow-providers-amazon 9.34.0 or later, which refuses the team-agnostic fall-through for an id that could name a team namespace.

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

Affected versions

Apache Airflow Amazon provider before 9.34.0

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Fixed versions

9.34.0

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Mitigation checklist

Recommended fix / mitigation

Users are advised to upgrade to apache-airflow-providers-amazon 9.34.0 or later, which refuses the team-agnostic fall-through for an id that could name a team namespace.

Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 2 months ago·verify at source

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