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TI-2026-56540 Aliases CVE-2026-81930GHSA-x776-f7fc-mx6q

Apache Airflow Snowflake provider: Unvalidated account field redirects SQL API bearer token off-domain

Priority LOW 28CWE-522Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
Low
Impact type
Information disclosure
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
Low · Low · Low
Fix status
Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CISA ADP. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-522.

Summary

Apache Airflow's Snowflake provider did not validate the connection's `account` and `region` fields before interpolating them into request URLs. The SQL API endpoint is built as `https://{account}.snowflakecomputing.com/api/v2/statements`, so an `account` value containing `/`, `?` or `#` demotes the intended domain to a path, query or fragment and leaves the attacker in control of the request host. The provider sends that request with an `Authorization: Bearer` header carrying a JWT minted from the connection's private key, or the configured OAuth or programmatic access token. A user who can edit the Snowflake connection but cannot read its secrets — Airflow gives connection-configuration users write-only access to stored credentials, and a `private_key_file` lives on the worker rather than in the connection — can therefore cause a valid token for the account to be delivered to a host of their choosing and replay it against the genuine Snowflake endpoint. No Dag-authoring ability is required: the attacker edits the connection and waits for an existing Dag to use it. The same unvalidated value was also used to build the OAuth token-request URL and the Cortex Agent base URL. Affects deployments where Snowflake connections are editable by users who are not trusted with the connection's credentials. Users are advised to upgrade to `apache-airflow-providers-snowflake` `6.18.0` or later, which rejects `account` and `region` values containing anything other than letters, digits, `.`, `_` and `-` in every URL the provider builds from them.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00432 37th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed Apache Airflow Snowflake provider (Apache Software Foundation): 6.18.0

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
None
Automatable
No
Technical impact
Partial

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
ApacheApache Airflow Snowflake providerbefore 6.18.06.18.0Patch availableCNA
  • Apache Airflow Snowflake provider VendorApache Affected before 6.18.0 Fixed in 6.18.0 Patch available CNA

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:apache:apache-airflow-providers-snowflake:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*before 6.18.0VulnerableApache
  • cpe:2.3:a:apache:apache-airflow-providers-snowflake:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions before 6.18.0 Vulnerable ·Apache

Remediation

  • Fix · CNA Apache Airflow Snowflake provider (Apache Software Foundation) Fixed in 6.18.0

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-81930
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-x776-f7fc-mx6q

References

  • TI-2025-32086 Apache Airflow Providers Snowflake: Potential SQL injection in CopyFromExternalStageToSnowflakeOperator CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8

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