# CVE-2026-86465: Apache Airflow Akeyless provider: Akeyless secrets backend: team-scope guard bypass via user-controlled key

> A Dag author can bypass team-scope guards to read secrets from other teams in multi-team Apache Airflow deployments using the Akeyless backend.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 16 Sep 2026
- **Updated:** 17 Sep 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-rmjj-53pr-xrwc

## What is CVE-2026-86465?

CVE-2026-86465 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Apache Airflow Akeyless provider, published on 16 Sep 2026. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

Apache Airflow Akeyless provider: the Akeyless secrets backend's team-scope guard can be bypassed with a user-controlled key. In a multi-team deployment, a Dag author scoped to one team can supply a Variable key containing a path separator that causes the backend to resolve a secret belonging to a different team, because the lookup path is concatenated from an unvalidated key after the team-scoped lookup misses. The Execution API Variables route accepts a path-shaped key, so this is reachable from ordinary Dag code.

Affects multi-team deployments using the Akeyless secrets backend. Single-team deployments are not affected, as there is no cross-team boundary to cross. This is the same class as CVE-2026-68870, CVE-2026-68871 and CVE-2026-68872 in the Azure Key Vault, Yandex Lockbox and Amazon secrets backends.

Users of apache-airflow-providers-akeyless are recommended to upgrade to version 0.3.1 or later, which fixes the issue.

Weakness: CWE-639 (Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-86465?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Apache Apache-Airflow-Providers-Akeyless.

## How do I fix CVE-2026-86465?

No fix has been published for CVE-2026-86465 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2026-86465 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-86465 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2026-86465 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2026-86465 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Apache Airflow Akeyless provider, published on 16 Sep 2026. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-86465 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Apache Airflow Akeyless provider. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-86465/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-86465/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-86465
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-86465
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2026-86465

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-86465/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.