CVE-2026-68969

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: 0%CVSS: 6.5Exploit: None knownExposed: 0

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

Apache Airflow wrote Variable values and Connection extra contents to the audit log in cleartext when they were submitted through the bulk endpoints (PATCH /api/v2/variables and PATCH /api/v2/connections). The audit-log masking recognised only top-level request fields, and a bulk request nests its entities two levels below, so no masking was applied to them. Any authenticated user with audit-log read access -- who need not hold Variables or Connections read at all -- could recover those secrets verbatim, and the Connection extra copy is stored unencrypted in the log while the connection table encrypts it. The Airflow UI's *Import Variables* action posts to this endpoint, so an ordinary operator import wrote every secret in the file to the log. This is a different code path from CVE-2026-50204: that fix shipped in 3.3.0 and covers the single-entity endpoints only, so deployments that upgraded in response to that advisory remain affected and must upgrade again. Users are advised to upgrade to apache-airflow 3.3.1 or later.

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%
Exploitation0% × 40%
Automatability0% × 15%
Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence.
EPSS PROB
0%
EPSS %ILE
29%
KEV
Not listed

Published

August 12, 2026

Last Modified

August 18, 2026

Advisory Details (3)

Auto-updated Aug 13, 2026
Upstream fix merged — awaiting tagged release. Sources: github_pr.
generic
https://lists.apache.org/thread/p3jr90jgp2brto4vwcrx680f3x11y70c
generic
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-50204
github_pr

Mask nested entities when writing bulk audit-log entries

Fix merged in apache/airflow PR #70890 on 2026-08-03 — awaiting tagged release

https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/70890

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-68969(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 22× in last 7d / 33× 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 20:12 UTCGHSA enrichment
  2. 2026-08-19 18:36 UTCEG score recompute
  3. 2026-08-19 18:36 UTCGHSA enrichment
  4. 2026-08-19 17:04 UTCEPSS rescore
  5. 2026-08-18 16:50 UTCEG score recompute
  6. 2026-08-18 16:50 UTCGHSA enrichment
  7. 2026-08-18 13:49 UTCEPSS rescore
  8. 2026-08-18 13:49 UTCEPSS rescore
  9. 2026-08-17 20:50 UTCEG score recompute
  10. 2026-08-17 20:50 UTCGHSA enrichment
  11. 2026-08-17 13:47 UTCEPSS rescore
  12. 2026-08-16 19:14 UTCEG score recompute
  13. 2026-08-16 19:14 UTCGHSA enrichment
  14. 2026-08-16 14:56 UTCEPSS rescore
  15. 2026-08-16 14:56 UTCEPSS rescore
  16. 2026-08-16 02:15 UTCEPSS rescore
  17. 2026-08-15 17:38 UTCEG score recompute
  18. 2026-08-15 17:38 UTCGHSA enrichment
  19. 2026-08-15 01:30 UTCEPSS rescore
  20. 2026-08-14 16:01 UTCEG score recompute
  21. 2026-08-14 16:01 UTCGHSA enrichment
  22. 2026-08-13 22:00 UTCEPSS rescore
  23. 2026-08-13 14:25 UTCGHSA enrichment
  24. 2026-08-13 13:36 UTCGHSA enrichment
  25. 2026-08-13 12:27 UTCEG score recompute▲ 6.50
Show 8 more
  1. 2026-08-13 12:27 UTCGHSA enrichment
  2. 2026-08-13 12:26 UTCMITRE cvelistV5CVSS v3 → 6.5 · severity → MEDIUM
  3. 2026-08-12 21:01 UTCGHSA enrichment
  4. 2026-08-12 21:00 UTCNVD update
  5. 2026-08-12 16:40 UTCMITRE cvelistV5
  6. 2026-08-12 16:33 UTCNVD update
  7. 2026-08-12 15:36 UTCEG score recompute
  8. 2026-08-12 15:35 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked

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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-68969?
CVE-2026-68969 is a medium vulnerability published on August 12, 2026. Apache Airflow wrote Variable values and Connection extra contents to the audit log in cleartext when they were submitted through the bulk endpoints (PATCH /api/v2/variables and PATCH /api/v2/connections). The audit-log masking recognised only top-level request fields, and a bulk request nests its…
When was CVE-2026-68969 disclosed?
CVE-2026-68969 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on August 12, 2026, with the most recent update on August 18, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2026-68969 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-68969 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, which ranks it in the top 71.0% of all scored CVEs.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-68969?
CVE-2026-68969 has a CVSS v3.1 base score of 6.5 (CISA-ADP / Vulnrichment enrichment; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-68969?
Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2026-68969, 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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