Sensitive Cookie in HTTPS Session Without 'Secure' Attribute Affecting airflow-3 package, versions <3.2.2-r0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.35% (28th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-MINIMOSLATEST-AIRFLOW3-17942287
  • published11 Jul 2026
  • disclosed1 Jun 2026

Introduced: 1 Jun 2026

CVE-2026-41017  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-614  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Minimos:latest airflow-3 to version 3.2.2-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream airflow-3 package and not the airflow-3 package as distributed by Minimos. See How to fix? for Minimos:latest relevant fixed versions and status.

Apache Airflow's JWTRefreshMiddleware set the JWT auth cookie without the Secure flag, so deployments running the Airflow API server behind an HTTPS-terminating reverse proxy (e.g. nginx / Envoy / a managed load balancer that terminates TLS and forwards plaintext to the API server, the default cloud-native topology) would have the user's session JWT replayed over any cleartext HTTP request to the same host. A network-positioned attacker (Wi-Fi MITM, hostile LAN, captive-portal proxy) could induce a logged-in user's browser to issue an HTTP request to the deployment's hostname and capture the JWT cookie out of that request, then replay it against the authenticated API. Affects deployments where the Airflow API server is reached through a TLS-terminating proxy and the cookie's secure-by-default protection is load-bearing for session integrity. Users are advised to upgrade to apache-airflow 3.2.2 or later.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1