youming1970 opened a new issue, #55320: URL: https://github.com/apache/airflow/issues/55320
Hi Apache Airflow team, Thank you for maintaining this essential workflow orchestration platform — Airflow's role in enterprise data pipeline security is critical for countless organizations. While reviewing example configurations and DAG templates, we identified several security patterns that could create risks in production environments: ## 1) Default insecure connection configurations (P1) **Observation**: Many example DAGs demonstrate connections without TLS/SSL enforcement **Risk**: Credentials and data transmitted in plaintext, vulnerable to interception. ## 2) Weak authentication in example configurations (P2) **Pattern**: Examples often use basic authentication without proper credential management **Risk**: Hardcoded credentials may be copied into production deployments. ## 3) Overly permissive executor configurations (P2) **Observation**: Default examples may not demonstrate proper resource isolation **Risk**: Task isolation failures could lead to data leakage between workflows. ## 4) Missing connection encryption examples (P2) **Pattern**: Database connections in examples lack encryption parameter demonstrations **Risk**: Sensitive pipeline data transmitted without encryption. ## Proposed security improvements: ### Enhanced Example Security: - Demonstrate TLS-enabled connections as default pattern - Show proper credential management using Airflow's secret backends - Include resource isolation examples for different executor types - Add security-focused DAG examples with proper authentication ### Documentation Enhancements: - Security best practices section for production deployments - Connection security configuration guide - Executor security considerations documentation - Secret management implementation examples ### Template Improvements: - Secure-by-default connection templates - Production-ready authentication patterns - Encrypted communication examples - Network isolation configuration samples ## Happy to contribute: - Security-focused example DAGs with proper credential handling - Documentation updates emphasizing production security requirements - Connection template security enhancements - Executor configuration security guidelines These improvements would help enterprises deploy Airflow with security-first practices, protecting sensitive data pipeline operations across organizations. Context: This analysis is from FlowSpec Configuration Security Review Team. Thanks for considering these security enhancements to protect enterprise data workflows. -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: commits-unsubscr...@airflow.apache.org.apache.org For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org
