Description
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.
Published: 2026-05-19
Score: 8.7 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-524w-vq63-2xhf Apache Airflow CNCF Kubernetes provider: JWT Token Exposure in KubernetesExecutor Command-Line Arguments
History

Wed, 20 May 2026 10:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Apache
Apache airflow Cncf Kubernetes
Vendors & Products Apache
Apache airflow Cncf Kubernetes

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References

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Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 8.7, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L'}

ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Tue, 19 May 2026 20:00:00 +0000

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Description 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.
Title Apache Airflow CNCF Kubernetes provider: JWT Token Exposure in KubernetesExecutor Command-Line Arguments
Weaknesses CWE-538
References

Subscriptions

Apache Airflow Cncf Kubernetes
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: apache

Published:

Updated: 2026-05-19T19:57:11.716Z

Reserved: 2026-02-18T14:18:43.403Z

Link: CVE-2026-27173

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-05-19T19:34:01.489Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2026-05-19T20:16:17.440

Modified: 2026-06-17T10:26:47.637

Link: CVE-2026-27173

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-05-20T10:15:15Z

Weaknesses