Description
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.
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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).
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| n8n-io | n8n | unaffected |
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| n8n-io | n8n | unaffected |
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| n8n-io | n8n | unaffected |
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History
Wed, 22 Jul 2026 11:45:00 +0000
| Type | Values Removed | Values Added |
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| Description | 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. | |
| Title | n8n before 1.123.64 Privilege Escalation via SSO Instance-Role | |
| First Time appeared |
N8n
N8n n8n |
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| Weaknesses | CWE-639 | |
| CPEs | cpe:2.3:a:n8n:n8n:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:* | |
| Vendors & Products |
N8n
N8n n8n |
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: VulnCheck
Published:
Updated: 2026-07-22T11:21:38.704Z
Reserved: 2026-07-21T11:32:54.897Z
Link: CVE-2026-65016
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Weaknesses
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CWE-639
Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key