CVE-2026-68868

MEDIUMPre-NVD 6.56.5—
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

Score 6.5 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2026-08-12. CISA-ADP (Vulnrichment) CVSS v3.1 baseline 6.5; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: cisa-adp, epss, ghsa
Trending — 3 sources updated this week
6.5EG
EchelonGraph verdictMonitorLow exploitation likelihood right now — keep watching.
  • Lower severity and no public exploit yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 1%CVSS: 6.5Exploit: None knownExposed: 0

No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.

The Google Cloud Secret Manager secrets backend in Apache Airflow's Google provider never applied the team scope when resolving Connections and Variables: the caller's team_name was accepted by the backend but dropped at the internal call boundary, so every lookup resolved against the team-agnostic secret name. In a deployment running multi-team mode with this backend, a task or Dag belonging to one team resolved another team's Connection or Variable, obtaining its credentials in full. No unusual configuration is required beyond enabling multi-team mode and using this backend. Users are advised to upgrade to apache-airflow-providers-google 22.3.0 or later, which builds and applies the team-scoped secret name.

CVSS v3
6.5
EG Score
6.5(high)
EG Risk
29(Track)
EG Risk 29/100SSVC: Track

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).

How it’s computed
Severity65% × 45%
Exploitation1% × 40%
Automatability0% × 15%
Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence.
EPSS PROB
1%
EPSS %ILE
45%
KEV
Not listed

Published

August 12, 2026

Last Modified

August 17, 2026

Advisory Details (2)

Auto-updated Aug 12, 2026
Upstream fix merged — awaiting tagged release. Sources: github_pr.
generic
https://lists.apache.org/thread/03h5y0fmqlh0yf055zlocxh591ozx69x
github_pr

Apply the team scope in the Google Secret Manager backend

Fix merged in apache/airflow PR #70869 on 2026-08-01 — awaiting tagged release

https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/70869

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-68868(1)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 23× in last 7d / 36× in last 30d)

Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.

  1. 2026-08-20 22:56 UTCEPSS rescore
  2. 2026-08-20 17:31 UTCGHSA enrichment
  3. 2026-08-19 18:37 UTCEG score recompute
  4. 2026-08-19 18:37 UTCGHSA enrichment
  5. 2026-08-19 17:04 UTCEPSS rescore
  6. 2026-08-18 18:10 UTCEG score recompute
  7. 2026-08-18 18:10 UTCGHSA enrichment
  8. 2026-08-18 13:49 UTCEPSS rescore
  9. 2026-08-18 13:49 UTCEPSS rescore
  10. 2026-08-17 19:08 UTCGHSA enrichment
  11. 2026-08-17 15:35 UTCEG score recompute
  12. 2026-08-17 15:35 UTCGHSA enrichment
  13. 2026-08-17 13:47 UTCEPSS rescore
  14. 2026-08-16 16:40 UTCEG score recompute
  15. 2026-08-16 16:40 UTCGHSA enrichment
  16. 2026-08-16 14:56 UTCEPSS rescore
  17. 2026-08-16 14:56 UTCEPSS rescore
  18. 2026-08-16 02:15 UTCEPSS rescore
  19. 2026-08-15 17:46 UTCEG score recompute
  20. 2026-08-15 17:46 UTCGHSA enrichment
  21. 2026-08-15 01:30 UTCEPSS rescore
  22. 2026-08-14 18:51 UTCEG score recompute
  23. 2026-08-14 18:51 UTCGHSA enrichment
  24. 2026-08-13 22:00 UTCEPSS rescore
  25. 2026-08-13 19:56 UTCGHSA enrichment
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  1. 2026-08-12 21:01 UTCGHSA enrichment
  2. 2026-08-12 18:38 UTCEG score recompute
  3. 2026-08-12 18:38 UTCGHSA enrichment
  4. 2026-08-12 17:26 UTCEG score recompute▲ 6.50
  5. 2026-08-12 17:26 UTCGHSA enrichment
  6. 2026-08-12 17:25 UTCMITRE cvelistV5CVSS v3 → 6.5 · severity → MEDIUM
  7. 2026-08-12 16:41 UTCGHSA enrichment
  8. 2026-08-12 16:40 UTCMITRE cvelistV5
  9. 2026-08-12 11:31 UTCNVD update
  10. 2026-08-12 10:34 UTCEG score recompute
  11. 2026-08-12 10:33 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-68868?
CVE-2026-68868 is a medium vulnerability published on August 12, 2026. The Google Cloud Secret Manager secrets backend in Apache Airflow's Google provider never applied the team scope when resolving Connections and Variables: the caller's team_name was accepted by the backend but dropped at the internal call boundary, so every lookup resolved against the team-agnostic…
When was CVE-2026-68868 disclosed?
CVE-2026-68868 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on August 12, 2026, with the most recent update on August 17, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2026-68868 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-68868 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, which ranks it in the top 55.2% of all scored CVEs.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-68868?
CVE-2026-68868 has a CVSS v3.1 base score of 6.5 (CISA-ADP / Vulnrichment enrichment; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-68868?
Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2026-68868, EchelonGraph cross-links them in the Vendor Advisories panel below — those typically contain the canonical remediation steps, fixed version numbers, and any vendor-specific mitigations.

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