CVE-2026-49487: airflow before 3.3.0 (exclusive); +1 more affected products

CVE-2026-49487. CVSS 3.1 base score 6.5 (MEDIUM, Source advisory). EPSS 0.00664 (percentile 0.51453), scored 25-Oct-2026.

Affected technology

airflow · before 3.3.0 (exclusive)
apache

Apache Airflow · 0 to before 3.3.0
Apache Software Foundation

Description’s affected range: before 3.3.0

Component: Not specified by the source

Attack conditions (Source advisory, CVSS 3.1): Network (remote) · Low privileges required · No user interaction required

What an attacker can do

The source says when a deferred operator passed a secret (for example a provider API key) into its trigger, any authenticated user with DAG-scoped task-instance read access for that DAG could read that secret in clear text while the task was deferred. Source advisory’s CVSS 3.1 assessment (base score 6.5/10) rates confidentiality impact as high; integrity and availability impact as none.

Published 25-Oct-2026 21:45 UTC

CWE: CWE-200
CCR priority: 26.2 /100 (P4)
CVSS 3.1: 6.5 /10 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N · Source advisory
EPSS: 0.00664 · percentile 0.51453 · 2026-10-25
KEV: no

Provenance

NVD CVE API 2.0 · Source record · observed 2026-10-25 21:44:36.062275+00:00 UTC

Stable permalink: https://cybercodered.org/item/cve-cve-2026-49487.html