Insertion of Sensitive Information into Externally-Accessible File or Directory Affecting apache-airflow-providers-cncf-kubernetes package, versions [,10.17.0rc1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.16% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-APACHEAIRFLOWPROVIDERSCNCFKUBERNETES-16770151
  • published21 May 2026
  • disclosed19 May 2026
  • creditNikolai Dvoinishnikov, Welltory

Introduced: 19 May 2026

CVE-2026-27173  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-538  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade apache-airflow-providers-cncf-kubernetes to version 10.17.0rc1 or higher.

Overview

apache-airflow-providers-cncf-kubernetes is a Provider for Apache Airflow. Implements apache-airflow-providers-cncf-kubernetes package

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Insertion of Sensitive Information into Externally-Accessible File or Directory via the exposure of JWT tokens in KubernetesExecutor command-line arguments. An attacker can gain unauthorized access to sensitive operations by obtaining these tokens through read-only access to Kubernetes Pods.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1