CVE-2026-27173
JWT tokens that were used by workers in Kubernetes Executors have been exposed to users who had read only access to Kuberentes Pods.
Published May 19, 2026 · updated Jul 24, 2026 · apache apache-airflow-providers-cncf-kubernetes
JWT tokens that were used by workers in Kubernetes Executors have been exposed to users who had read only access to Kuberentes Pods. This could allow users with just read-only access to perform actions that were only available to running tasks via Task SDK and potentially allow to modify state of Airflow Database for tasks.
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May 19, 2026 · NIST NVD
Detected
JWT tokens that were used by workers in Kubernetes Executors have been exposed to users who had read only access to Kuberentes Pods. This could allow users with just read-only access to perform actions that were only available to running tasks via Task SDK and potentially allow to modify state of Airflow Database for tasks.
Jul 24, 2026 · NIST NVD
Updated
JWT tokens that were used by workers in Kubernetes Executors have been exposed to users who had read only access to Kuberentes Pods. This could allow users with just read-only access to perform actions that were only available to running tasks via Task SDK and potentially allow to modify state of Airflow Database for tasks.
Affected
- cpe apache/apache-airflow-providers-cncf-kubernetesversion unspecified
Sources
- CVE.orgVulnerability recordCVE-2026-27173
Official CVE identifier
cve.org - NIST NVDVulnerability recordCVE-2026-27173
JWT tokens that were used by workers in Kubernetes Executors have been exposed to users who had read only access to Kuberentes Pods. This could allow users with just read-only access to perform actions that were only available to running tasks via Task SDK and potentially allow t
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