CVE-2026-72534 PUBLISHED

Authentik Security authentik - Privilege Escalation

Assigner: TuranSec
Reserved: 10.08.2026 Published: 11.08.2026 Updated: 11.08.2026

A privilege escalation vulnerability in Authentik Security authentik through 2026.5.6 allows an attacker with a source-scoped SCIM provisioning token to gain superuser privileges by provisioning a SCIM group that matches an existing administrator group by name. The SCIM group ingest function adopts any existing group by name and replaces its membership without validating the source scope against the target group. An attacker can grant their provisioning token full IdP superuser access and lock out all existing administrators.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS Score: 8.8

Product Status

Vendor Authentik Security
Product authentik
Versions
  • affected from 0 to 2026.5.6 (incl.)

Credits

  • Bobur Abdugafforov (Mahadsec) finder

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-269: Improper Privilege Management CWE