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CVE-2026-86465

MEDIUM · CVSS 6.5 EPSS 0.22% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS · Published 2026-09-16 · Last synced 2026-09-18

CyberRota Analysis

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The Apache Airflow Akeyless provider is vulnerable due to a bypass in the team-scope guard, allowing a Dag author to manipulate a Variable key to access secrets belonging to other teams in multi-team deployments. This could lead to unauthorized access to sensitive information, posing a significant risk in environments where multiple teams operate. Organizations utilizing the Akeyless secrets backend in a multi-team setup should prioritize upgrading to version 0.3.1 or later to mitigate this vulnerability.

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CVE
CVE-2026-86465
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
6.5
EPSS
0.22%
Apache

Original NVD Description

Apache Airflow Akeyless provider: the Akeyless secrets backend's team-scope guard can be bypassed with a user-controlled key. In a multi-team deployment, a Dag author scoped to one team can supply a Variable key containing a path separator that causes the backend to resolve a secret belonging to a different team, because the lookup path is concatenated from an unvalidated key after the team-scoped lookup misses. The Execution API Variables route accepts a path-shaped key, so this is reachable from ordinary Dag code. Affects multi-team deployments using the Akeyless secrets backend. Single-team deployments are not affected, as there is no cross-team boundary to cross. This is the same class as CVE-2026-68870, CVE-2026-68871 and CVE-2026-68872 in the Azure Key Vault, Yandex Lockbox and Amazon secrets backends. Users of apache-airflow-providers-akeyless are recommended to upgrade to version 0.3.1 or later, which fixes the issue.

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