{
  "affected": [
    {
      "ranges": [
        {
          "database_specific": {
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:apache:airflow:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "introduced": "0"
              },
              {
                "fixed": "3.3.1"
              }
            ],
            "source": [
              "AFFECTED_FIELD",
              "CPE_RANGE"
            ]
          },
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "acffa62713874bc64db3f6447840cf171114476f"
            }
          ],
          "repo": "https://github.com/apache/airflow",
          "type": "GIT"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cna_assigner": "apache",
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-532"
    ],
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/68xxx/CVE-2026-68969.json"
  },
  "details": "Apache Airflow wrote Variable values and Connection `extra` contents to the audit log in cleartext when they were submitted through the bulk endpoints (`PATCH /api/v2/variables` and `PATCH /api/v2/connections`). The audit-log masking recognised only top-level request fields, and a bulk request nests its entities two levels below, so no masking was applied to them. Any authenticated user with audit-log read access -- who need not hold Variables or Connections read at all -- could recover those secrets verbatim, and the Connection `extra` copy is stored unencrypted in the log while the connection table encrypts it. The Airflow UI's *Import Variables* action posts to this endpoint, so an ordinary operator import wrote every secret in the file to the log. This is a different code path from CVE-2026-50204: that fix shipped in 3.3.0 and covers the single-entity endpoints only, so deployments that upgraded in response to that advisory remain affected and must upgrade again. Users are advised to upgrade to apache-airflow 3.3.1 or later.",
  "id": "CVE-2026-68969",
  "modified": "2026-08-15T11:31:17.028218473Z",
  "published": "2026-08-12T15:26:40.095Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://pypi.python.org"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-50204"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/68xxx/CVE-2026-68969.json"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://lists.apache.org/thread/p3jr90jgp2brto4vwcrx680f3x11y70c"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-68969"
    },
    {
      "type": "FIX",
      "url": "https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/70890"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.9.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ],
  "summary": "Apache Airflow: Bulk Variable and Connection endpoints record secret values in the audit log in cleartext"
}