CVE-2026-42360CWE-200

Apache Airflow: Rendered template truncation bypasses nested sensitive-key masking

Medium · published June 1, 2026

CVSS v3.1
6.5
EPSS
1%
Percentile
43.5
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

A bug in Apache Airflow's rendered-template field handling caused nested sensitive-key masking (e.g. nested `password` / `token` / `secret` / `api_key` keys inside a JSON template structure) to be bypassed when the rendered field exceeded `[core] max_templated_field_length`: Airflow stringified the structure before redaction, losing the nested key context, and persisted the plaintext value into `rendered_fields`. An authenticated UI/API user with permission to read rendered template fields could harvest secret values intended to be masked. Affects deployments where Dag authors pass structured JSON to operators with nested sensitive keys. This is a variant of `CWE-200` previously addressed for the user-registered `mask_secret()` patterns in CVE-2025-68438; that fix did not cover the nested sensitive-keyword allowlist. Users who already upgraded for CVE-2025-68438 should additionally upgrade to `apache-airflow` 3.2.2 or later to cover the nested-key path.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
6.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00523 · 43.5th percentile
Weakness
CWE-200 · Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
Published
2026-06-01T07:50Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 01 JUN 07:50Z
    Apache Airflow: Rendered template truncation bypasses nested sensitive-key masking
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