Disclosure summary
Apache Airflow's secrets masker hides values stored under sensitive key names when they are displayed in the UI. The masker's recursion-depth limit did not descend into values nested inside a list, tuple, or set beyond that limit, so an Airflow Variable holding such a deeply-nested value was shown unmasked in the Variables UI. The exposure is limited to the UI: any authenticated user who can see the Variable in the UI can already read its full value through the Variables REST API, so this does not disclose data the user could not otherwise obtain — the masking is a shoulder-surfing defense for the UI, not an access-control boundary. This is an incomplete-fix follow-up to CVE-2026-42358, whose fix made only the dictionary walk unbounded; lists, tuples, and sets beyond the depth limit remained unmasked in the UI. Deployments that applied the CVE-2026-42358 fix should also upgrade to address this residual case. Upgrade to apache-airflow 3.3.1 or later.
Source-specific records & product guidance
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GitHub Reviewed Security Advisories · GHSA-g4qj-5vxv-wggf
Open original source · Updated Oct 02, 2026
Apache Airflow Variables UI fails to mask sensitive values in deeply nested iterables
Source severity: MEDIUM / 0
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected range | First patched |
|---|---|---|---|
| pip | apache-airflow | < 3.3.1 | 3.3.1 |
Original records & references
- NIST NVD record
- CVE Program record
- github.com — Reviewed advisory
PUBLISHED 2026-08-12T14:31:18-04:00
MODIFIED 2026-10-02T19:13:29-04:00
INGESTED 2026-10-06T11:45:17-04:00