CVE-2026-86081 PUBLISHED

n8n: Regular Expression Denial of Service in the Default Blocked-File-Pattern Match via a Git Node Clone Path

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 04.09.2026 Published: 08.09.2026 Updated: 08.09.2026

n8n is an open source workflow automation platform. Prior to 1.123.76, 2.37.7, and 2.38.2, the Git node clone operation matched an attacker-controlled destination path against the default N8N_BLOCK_FILE_PATTERNS regular expression. The pattern ^(./).git(/.)$ allowed catastrophic backtracking and ran synchronously in the main n8n process. An authenticated workflow editor could therefore freeze the instance with one workflow execution; the affected default is declared in packages/@n8n/config/src/configs/security.config.ts. This issue is fixed in versions 1.123.76, 2.37.7 and 2.38.2.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 7.1

Product Status

Vendor n8n-io
Product n8n
Versions
  • Version >= 2.38.0, < 2.38.2 is affected
  • Version >= 2.0.0, < 2.37.7 is affected
  • Version < 1.123.76 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-1333: Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity CWE