CVE-2026-50204: Apache Airflow: Audit-log secrets masker redacts by key name only, persisting connection and Variable secrets in cleartext
Noroxi assessment
Priority: Monitor (action score 0/100)
- The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.11% (FIRST EPSS).
- Fixed version: Apache Software Foundation Apache Airflow 3.0.0, 3.4.0.
Low priority for now. Upgrade to Apache Software Foundation Apache Airflow 3.0.0, 3.4.0 or later.
Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it
Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS
Apache Airflow's audit log stored Connection and Variable secret values in cleartext in the `Log.extra` column because the secrets masker matched only on configured sensitive key names. An authenticated low-privilege user with read access to the event-log / audit API — with no prior access to the affected connection or variable — could read those rows and recover the credentials verbatim. Users should upgrade to apache-airflow 3.4.0 or later, which masks these values and restricts the affected audit rows to authorized users. Airflow 2.x is also affected; Airflow 2 has reached end of life and will not receive a fix, so Airflow 2 users should upgrade to Apache Airflow 3.4.0 or later.
- Published
- Nov 9, 2026
- Updated
- Nov 10, 2026
- EPSS
- 0.1% · 1th percentile
- CWE
- CWE-312
Report tools
Action score
0
Monitor
Low priority for now.
- CVSS
- 0 / 40 · —
- CISA KEV
- 0 / 30 · Not listed
- EPSS
- 0 / 30 · 0.1%
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Versions reported by the vendor
Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (apache). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.
Apache Software Foundation Apache Airflow
- before 3.0.0affected · semver
- before 3.4.0affected · semver
Same product
apache software foundation: all recordsOther highest-scoring records for the same primary product.
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- CVE-2026-75157Apache Airflow: Asset queued-events DELETE endpoints gated on Dag READ instead of Dag EDIT (asset-triggered scheduling suppression)30Monitor
- CVE-2026-111453Apache Airflow: API: asset queuedEvents DELETE checks Dag edit on a ?dag_id query value but deletes rows for every readable Dag17Monitor
Published before and after this one in the same product
- ← EarlierCVE-2026-113508Nov 9, 2026 · Apache Airflow: Logout token revocation fails open; errors silently swallowed0Monitor
- ← EarlierCVE-2026-40913Nov 9, 2026 · Apache Airflow: Import Errors API Leaks Unauthorized DAG Stack Traces via Incomplete Per-File RBAC Enforcement0Monitor
- Later →CVE-2026-68982Nov 9, 2026 · Apache Airflow: CeleryExecutor: forged callback workloads run on Celery workers without workload-token validation0Monitor
Remediation
Which version to upgrade to
Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.
| Product / package | Fixed version | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Apache Software Foundation Apache Airflow | 3.0.0 | Vendor (CNA) |
| Apache Software Foundation Apache Airflow | 3.4.0 | Vendor (CNA) |
Exploit status
No known public exploit
No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.
Research context
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Timeline
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- Published
- Fix recordedsame day
- TodayNov 12, 2026+3 d
FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).
Patch and commit links
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Credits
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- Eunho Kimfinder
- Jarek Potiukremediation developer
Variant candidates
Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.
No nightly-computed relations.
Chain candidates
An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.
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Bug bounty scope
No known public program.
Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).
Technical details
No CVSS vector for this record, so attack conditions can't be derived.
Weakness class (CWE)
CWE-312 · Cleartext Storage of Sensitive InformationAttack context
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Change log
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References
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