CVE-2026-68871 Apache Airflow Yandex Lockbox backend allows cross-team secret disclosure

Medium 6.5 Published Updated

Attackers in multi-team deployments can bypass team-scope guards to read secrets belonging to other teams via the Yandex Lockbox 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-2026-68871?

CVE-2026-68871 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Apache Airflow Yandex provider, published on 10 Aug 2026. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The Yandex Lockbox secrets backend in Apache Airflow's Yandex 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 this 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 this backend. Users are advised to upgrade to apache-airflow-providers-yandex 4.5.1 or later, which refuses the team-agnostic fall-through for an id that could name a team namespace.

Weakness: CWE-639

Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-68871?

3 open source packages ship an affected version, including apache-airflow-providers-yandex. It affects 1 product.

PackageAffectedFixed in
apache-airflow-providers-yandex PyPIAll versions4.5.1
apache-airflow-providers-yandex PyPIAll versions4.5.1
apache-airflow-providers-yandex PyPIAll versions4.5.1

Products include Apache Apache-Airflow-Providers-Apache-Yandex.

How do I fix CVE-2026-68871?

Upgrade apache-airflow-providers-yandex to 4.5.1 or later.

Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.

Is CVE-2026-68871 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-68871 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-qmrf-jrpr-rjx6, PYSEC-2026-3715.

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