CVE-2026-65016

Estado: AnalizadaAlta (7.7)—

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

Versión: 4.0
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/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
Puntuación base: 7.7

Probabilidad de explotación (EPSS)

Probabilidad de explotación en los próximos 30 días: 0.45%
Percentil entre todas las CVEs puntuadas: 37
Fecha de la puntuación: 6/10/2026

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, de FIRST) estima la probabilidad de que una vulnerabilidad sea explotada en 30 días. Complementa a CVSS (impacto) y a CISA KEV (explotación confirmada).

🎯 Técnicas ATT&CK

Cómo se explota esta vulnerabilidad y qué consigue el atacante, en el lenguaje de MITRE ATT&CK.

ExplotaciónT1210 Exploitation of Remote Serviceslateral movement85 %
Impacto principalT1068 Exploitation for Privilege Escalationprivilege escalation90 %
Impacto secundarioT1078.001 Default Accountsstealth · persistence · privilege escalation · initial access85 %
Impacto secundarioT1098.003 Additional Cloud Rolespersistence · privilege escalation75 %

Acceso remoto autenticado a servicio (SSO) que escala privilegios a owner/admin. CWE-639 (autorización incorrecta) y vector PR:L confirman escalada. Requiere IdP bajo control del atacante.

Inferido por nuestro agente de análisis a partir de la descripción oficial, el vector CVSS y la CWE, y comprobado por un supervisor. Puede contener errores.

🛡️ Mitigaciones ATT&CK que cubren estas técnicas

Threat Intelligence Program Privileged Account Management Multi-factor Authentication Application Isolation and Sandboxing Exploit Protection Update Software

Tecnologías afectadas (1)

N8N — N8N

CWE

CWE-639

Referencias

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