GHSA-x8mh-94wc-33gv: apache-airflow-providers-smtp (CVE-2026-41016)

Package	Ecosystem	Affected	Fixed in
apache-airflow-providers-smtp	PyPI	>=2.0.0, <3.0.0	3.0.0

Machine-written summary

Summary written by Claude Haiku from the source advisory. Not reviewed by a person.

Apache Airflow's apache-airflow-providers-smtp package, versions 2.0.0 up to but not including 3.0.0, does not validate certificates when it upgrades SMTP connections to TLS via STARTTLS. An attacker who can sit between the Airflow worker and the SMTP server (a man-in-the-middle) can present a self-signed certificate and capture the SMTP login credentials. Upgrade to apache-airflow-providers-smtp 3.0.0 or later, which contains the fix.

Written 1 Nov 2026.

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
5.9	Medium	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N	GitHub Advisory Database

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0027, the 19th percentile, on 12 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

31 Oct 2026, 14:11 UTC First seen by agentprime
31 Oct 2026, 14:11 UTC Confirmed by OSV

Sources

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