8.9 HIGH
- CVSS version (CVSS): 4.0
- Attack Vector (AV): Network (N)
- Attack Complexity (AC): Low (L)
- Attack Requirement (AT): Present (P)
- Privileges Required (PR): Low (L)
- User Interaction (UI): None (N)
- Vulnerable System Impact Confidentiality (VC): High (H)
- Vulnerable System Impact Integrity (VI): High (H)
- Vulnerable System Impact Availability (VA): High (H)
- Subsequent System Impact Confidentiality (SC): High (H)
- Subsequent System Impact Integrity (SI): Low (L)
- Subsequent System Impact Availability (SA): Low (L)
- Modified Attack Vector (MAV): Network (N)
- Modified Attack Complexity (MAC): Low (L)
- Modified Attack Requirement (MAT): Present (P)
- Modified Privileges Required (MPR): Low (L)
- Modified User Interaction (MUI): None (N)
- Modified Vulnerable System Impact Confidentiality (MVC): High (H)
- Modified Vulnerable System Impact Integrity (MVI): High (H)
- Modified Vulnerable System Impact Availability (MVA): High (H)
- Modified Subsequent System Impact Confidentiality (MSC): High (H)
- Modified Subsequent System Impact Integrity (MSI): Low (L)
- Modified Subsequent System Impact Availability (MSA): Low (L)
- Safety (S): Not Defined (X)
- Automatable (AU): Not Defined (X)
- Recovery (R): Not Defined (X)
- Value Density (V): Not Defined (X)
- Vulnerability Response Effort (RE): Not Defined (X)
- Provider Urgency (U): Not Defined (X)
- Confidentiality Req. (CR): Not Defined (X)
- Integrity Req. (IR): Not Defined (X)
- Availability Req. (AR): Not Defined (X)
- Exploit Maturity (E): Not Defined (X)
Activity log
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n8n before 2.30.1 Privilege Escalation via Token Exchange
n8n before 2.30.1 and 2.29.8 assigns all Public API key scopes to JWTs issued through the Token Exchange module regardless of the acting user's role. On instances where the Token Exchange feature and Public API are enabled, a low-privileged user who can obtain a valid external JWT trusted by a configured issuer can use the resulting access token to invoke administrator-only Public API operations such as role escalation, user creation, and user deletion (role escalation requires an Advanced Permissions license), and, when unverified Community Package installation is enabled, achieve remote code execution.
References
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GitHub Security Advisory (GHSA-777w-rpr6-c52h) vendor-advisory
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VulnCheck Advisory: n8n before 2.30.1 Privilege Escalation via Token Exchange third-party-advisory
Affected products
- <2.29.8
- ==2.30.1
- ==2.29.8
- <2.30.1
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Package maintainers
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@sweenu sweenu <contact@sweenu.xyz>
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@AdrienLemaire Adrien Lemaire <lemaire.adrien@gmail.com>
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@gepbird Gutyina Gergő <gutyina.gergo.2@gmail.com>
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@vitorpavani Vitor Pavan <vipavani@hotmail.com>