CVE-2026-27173

Summary

JWT tokens that were used by workers in Kubernetes Executors have been exposed to users who had read only access to Kuberentes Pods. This could allow users with just read-only access to perform actions that were only available to running tasks via Task SDK and potentially allow to modify state of Airflow Database for tasks.

Affected Software

Weaknesses

• CWE-538: CWE-538: Insertion of Sensitive Information into Externally-Accessible File or Directory

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/05/19/35

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

• SSVC:
• Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical Impact: partial

References

• https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/60108
• https://lists.apache.org/thread/pk3m2z4s2rkmc0v6gh9hnch9spc6stqw

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