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.
References
| Link | Resource |
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| https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/72646 | Issue Tracking Vendor Advisory |
| https://lists.apache.org/thread/vczt5xgqjv8ot8fpp1vdq3rmnfm50w0g | Mailing List Vendor Advisory |
| https://lists.apache.org/thread/vczt5xgqjv8ot8fpp1vdq3rmnfm50w0g?users@airflow.apache.org | Mailing List Vendor Advisory |
| https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68870 | Not Applicable |
| https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68871 | Not Applicable |
| https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68872 | Not Applicable |
Configurations
History
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| CPE | cpe:2.3:a:apache:apache-airflow-providers-akeyless:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | |
| References | () https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/72646 - Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory | |
| References | () https://lists.apache.org/thread/vczt5xgqjv8ot8fpp1vdq3rmnfm50w0g - Mailing List, Vendor Advisory | |
| References | () https://lists.apache.org/thread/vczt5xgqjv8ot8fpp1vdq3rmnfm50w0g?users@airflow.apache.org - Mailing List, Vendor Advisory | |
| References | () https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68870 - Not Applicable | |
| References | () https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68871 - Not Applicable | |
| References | () https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68872 - Not Applicable | |
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v2 : unknown
v3 : 6.5 |
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Information
Published : 2026-09-16 09:17
Updated : 2026-09-17 20:18
NVD link : CVE-2026-86465
Mitre link : CVE-2026-86465
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-86465
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Products Affected
apache
- apache-airflow-providers-akeyless
CWE
CWE-639
Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
