GHSA-x8mh-94wc-33gvMediumCVSS 5.9

apache-airflow-providers-smtp: No certificate validation on SMTP STARTTLS connections in SMTP provider

Published
April 30, 2026
Last Modified
May 22, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

Apache Airflow's SMTP provider `SmtpHook` called Python's `smtplib.SMTP.starttls()` without an SSL context, so no certificate validation was performed on the TLS upgrade. A man-in-the-middle between the Airflow worker and the SMTP server could present a self-signed certificate, complete the STARTTLS upgrade, and capture the SMTP credentials sent during the subsequent `login()` call. Users are advised to upgrade to the `apache-airflow-providers-smtp` version that contains the fix.

🎯 Affected products1

  • pip/apache-airflow-providers-smtp:>= 2.0.0, < 3.0.0

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