Severity: low

Affected versions:

- apache-airflow-providers-smtp >= 2.0.0, < 3.0.0

Description:

Apache Airflow's SMTP provider SmtpHook called Python's
smtplib.SMTP.starttls() without an SSL context, so no certificate
validation was performed on the TLS upgrade. A man-in-the-middle
between the Airflow worker and the SMTP server could present a
self-signed certificate, complete the STARTTLS upgrade, and capture
the SMTP credentials sent during the subsequent login() call. Users
are advised to upgrade to the apache-airflow-providers-smtp version
that contains the fix.

Credit:

Francis Bergin (@francisbergin)

References:

https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/65346
https://airflow.apache.org/
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-41016

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