CVE-2026-65016 PUBLISHED

n8n before 1.123.64 Privilege Escalation via SSO Instance-Role

Assigner: VulnCheck
Reserved: 21.07.2026 Published: 22.07.2026 Updated: 22.07.2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: 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 Score: 7.7

Product Status

Vendor n8n-io
Product n8n
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to 1.123.64 (excl.)
  • Version 1.123.64 is unaffected
Vendor n8n-io
Product n8n
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to 2.30.1 (excl.)
  • Version 2.30.1 is unaffected
Vendor n8n-io
Product n8n
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to 2.29.8 (excl.)
  • Version 2.29.8 is unaffected

Credits

  • ttzero25 reporter

References

Problem Types

  • Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key CWE