Severity: moderate 

Affected versions:

- Apache Airflow (apache-airflow) before 3.3.0

Description:

The Config API in Apache Airflow surfaced per-key secrets-backend overrides 
(environment variables like `AIRFLOW__SECRETS__BACKEND_KWARG__SECRET_ID` and 
`AIRFLOW__WORKERS__SECRETS_BACKEND_KWARG__SECRET_ID`) as synthetic config 
options whose option names were not in `sensitive_config_values`, so the masker 
did not redact them. An authenticated UI/API user with Config read permission 
could retrieve plaintext secrets-backend credentials (Vault `role_id` / 
`secret_id`, etc.) from the Config API output. Affects deployments that 
configure secrets backends via per-key environment overrides. Users are advised 
to upgrade to `apache-airflow` 3.3.0 or later.

Credit:

Omkhar Arasaratnam (@omkhar) (finder)
Jarek Potiuk (remediation developer)

References:

https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/67622
https://airflow.apache.org/
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-48892

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