CVE-2026-65016
n8n versions before 1.123.64, 2.29.8, and 2.30.1 contain a privilege escalation vulnerability in Enterprise SSO instance-role provisioning. The provisioning path maps an IdP-asserted role claim to an n8n global role but does not prevent assignment of the global:owner role (unlike the token-exchange identity path, which rejects it). An SSO-authenticated user whose instance-role claim resolves to global:owner is provisioned as instance owner, gaining full administrative control over workflows, credentials, users, and instance configuration. Exploitation requires that Enterprise SSO is configured, instance-role provisioning is enabled via N8N_SSO_SCOPES_PROVISION_INSTANCE_ROLE (disabled by default), and the attacker controls the instance-role claim value issued by the IdP.
- CVSS 4.0
- 7.7
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N - CVSS 3.1
- 8.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - EPSS
- 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 38% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-25)
- CWE
- CWE-639
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- n8n:n8n
Packages (OSV)
| Advisory | Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GHSA-35q8-9mj6-wjmf | npm | n8n | <1.123.64 | 1.123.64 |
| GHSA-35q8-9mj6-wjmf | npm | n8n | >=2.30.0 <2.30.1 | 2.30.1 |
| GHSA-35q8-9mj6-wjmf | npm | n8n | >=2.0.0-rc.0 <2.29.8 | 2.29.8 |