CVE-2026-68868 Missing authorization in Apache Airflow Google provider
Attackers in multi-team Airflow deployments can access other teams' credentials due to missing team scope enforcement in the Google Secret Manager backend.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2026-68868?
CVE-2026-68868 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Apache Airflow Google provider, published on 12 Aug 2026. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
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.
Weakness: CWE-1220
Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-68868?
1 open source package ship an affected version, including apache-airflow-providers-google. It affects 1 product.
| Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
apache-airflow-providers-google PyPI | All versions | 22.3.0 |
Products include Apache Apache-Airflow-Providers-Google.
How do I fix CVE-2026-68868?
Upgrade apache-airflow-providers-google to 22.3.0 or later.
Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.
Is CVE-2026-68868 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-68868 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Apache Airflow Google provider
- CVE-2023-25691 Apache Airflow Google Provider: Google Cloud Sql Provider Remote Command Execution
- CVE-2026-49297 Apache Airflow Google provider allows path traversal through GCS object names
- CVE-2026-45361 Apache Airflow providers-google's `ComputeEngineSSHHook` disables SSH host-key verification by default
- CVE-2023-25692 Apache Airflow Google Provider: Google Cloud Sql Provider Denial Of Service
- CVE-2026-81914 Apache Airflow Google provider: Google Drive query injection via unescaped file and folder names
Sources
Also known as GHSA-qfr4-ppjq-9gr3, PYSEC-2026-3714.