CVE-2025-65995 Apache Airflow: Disclosure of secrets to UI via kwargs

What is CVE-2025-65995?

CVE-2025-65995 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Apache Airflow, published on 21 Feb 2026. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

When a DAG failed during parsing, Airflow’s error-reporting in the UI could include the full kwargs passed to the operators. If those kwargs contained sensitive values (such as secrets), they might be exposed in the UI tracebacks to authenticated users who had permission to view that DAG. 

The issue has been fixed in Airflow 3.1.4 and 2.11.1, and users are strongly advised to upgrade to prevent potential disclosure of sensitive information.

Weakness: CWE-209

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-65995?

6 open source packages ship an affected version, including apache-airflow and airflow. It affects 1 product.

Products include Apache Airflow.

How do I fix CVE-2025-65995?

Upgrade apache-airflow to a fixed version for your release line: 2.11.1 or 3.1.5rc1.

Is CVE-2025-65995 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-65995 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Apache Airflow

• CVE-2020-13927 Apache Airflow's Experimental API Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-11978 Apache Airflow Command Injection Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2026-33264 Apache Airflow: DAG author RCE on webserver via unrestricted import_string() in BaseSerialization.deserialize() Critical 9.8
• CVE-2023-25754 Apache Airflow: Privilege escalation using airflow logs Critical 9.8
• CVE-2023-22884 Apache Airflow, Apache Airflow MySQL Provider: Arbitrary file read via MySQL provider in Apache Airflow Critical 9.8

All Apache Airflow vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as BIT-airflow-2025-65995, ECHO-c463-1548-b100, GHSA-gfw7-2v73-69wg, MINI-2xqq-86w9-gm35, MINI-44h7-r32v-94v2, PYSEC-2026-2348.