CVE-2026-27173 — Apache Airflow CNCF Kubernetes provider: JWT Token Exposure in KubernetesExecutor Command-Line Arguments

Description (CNA)

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 (CNA)

Vendor / product	Versions
Apache Software Foundation / Apache Airflow CNCF Kubernetes provider	affected 0 before 10.17.0

CWE

CWE-538

References

https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/60108
https://lists.apache.org/thread/pk3m2z4s2rkmc0v6gh9hnch9spc6stqw

ADP enrichment

CVE

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http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/05/19/35

CISA-ADP

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