# CVE-2026-97636: Apache Airflow HashiCorp provider: HashiCorp Vault secrets backend: team-scope guard bypass via user-controlled key

- Severity: CVSS 6.5 (Medium), CISA-ADP
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 4.8.0
- Published: 2026-09-24 · Updated: 2026-09-25

## Affected

- apache-airflow-providers-hashicorp: from 4.6.0, fixed in 4.8.0

## Description

Apache Airflow HashiCorp provider: the HashiCorp Vault secrets backend's team-scope guard can be bypassed with a user-controlled key. In a multi-team deployment, a Dag author scoped to one team can supply a Variable key containing a path separator that causes the backend to resolve a secret belonging to a different team, because after the team-scoped lookup misses the backend falls back to a team-agnostic path concatenated from the unvalidated key. The Execution API Variables route accepts a path-shaped key, so this is reachable from ordinary Dag code. Affects multi-team deployments using the HashiCorp Vault secrets backend. Single-team deployments are not affected, as there is no cross-team boundary to cross. This is the same class as CVE-2026-86465, CVE-2026-68870, CVE-2026-68871 and CVE-2026-68872 in the Akeyless, Azure Key Vault, Yandex Lockbox and Amazon secrets backends. Users of apache-airflow-providers-hashicorp are recommended to upgrade to version 4.8.0 or later, which fixes the issue.

## What to do

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## References

- https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/70006
- https://lists.apache.org/thread/l0fogo9dh5v07vnsxnhoh3c74othkr51
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68870
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68871
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68872
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-86465

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