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        "datePublished": "2026-06-01T07:53:13.259Z",
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                    "type": "finder",
                    "value": "Francis Bergin (@francisbergin)"
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                    "type": "remediation developer",
                    "value": "Jarek Potiuk"
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                            "value": "Apache Airflow&#x27;s EmailOperator and the underlying `airflow.utils.email` helpers established SMTP STARTTLS connections without verifying the remote certificate when the deployment used `[email] smtp_starttls=True` without `[email] smtp_ssl`. An attacker positioned between the worker and the configured SMTP server (network MITM — typical hostile-network attack-surface for environments where the SMTP relay sits outside the worker&#x27;s trust boundary) could present a self-signed certificate, have the worker complete the STARTTLS handshake silently, and capture the SMTP AUTH credentials and message contents the worker forwarded.<br><br>This CVE covers the **core apache-airflow side** of the same root cause already covered for the SMTP provider by `CVE-2026-41016` (published 2026-04-27, covering `apache-airflow-providers-smtp`). Users who already applied the SMTP-provider fix from CVE-2026-41016 should additionally upgrade `apache-airflow` to 3.2.2 or later to cover the core-side path through `airflow.utils.email`. Affects deployments configured with `smtp_starttls=True` and `smtp_ssl=False` where the SMTP relay is reachable across a less-trusted network segment than the worker.<br><br>Users are advised to upgrade to `apache-airflow` 3.2.2 or later."
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                    "url": "https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/65346"
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