🛡️ CVE-2025-71380 — n8n

🟠 CVSS 8.8 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-78 NVD
8.8
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

n8n: Execute Command Node Allows Authenticated Users to Run Arbitrary Commands on Host

Impact

The Execute Command node in n8n allows execution of arbitrary commands on the host system where n8n runs. While this functionality is intended for advanced automation and can be useful in certain workflows, it poses a security risk if all users with access to the n8n instance are not fully trusted.

An attacker—either a malicious user or someone who has compromised a legitimate user account—could exploit this node to run arbitrary commands on the host machine, potentially leading to data exfiltration, service disruption, or full system compromise.

This vulnerability affects all n8n deployments where:

  • The Execute Command node is enabled, and
  • Not all user accounts are strictly controlled and trusted.

n8n.cloud is not impacted.

Patches

No code changes have been made to alter the behavior of the Execute Command node. The recommended mitigation is to disable the node by default in environments where it is not explicitly required.

Future n8n versions may change the default availability of this node.

Workarounds

Administrators can disable the Execute Command node by setting the following environment variable before starting n8n:

```bash

export NODES_EXCLUDE: "[\"n8n-nodes-base.executeCommand\"]"

```

References

n8n docs: [Execute Command](https://docs.n8n.io/integrations/builtin/core-nodes/n8n-nodes-base.executecommand/)

n8n docs: [Blocking nodes](https://docs.n8n.io/hosting/securing/blocking-nodes/)

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2025-71380 is classified as CWE-78: OS Command Injection. Untrusted input reaches a shell command without neutralisation, so an attacker can run arbitrary operating system commands.

Affected software

CVE-2025-71380 is recorded against 3 packages.

  • n8n
  • n8n-nodes-base
  • unknown

Timeline and source

Published on 9 October 2025 and last revised on 8 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-78
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2025-10-09
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-07-08
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
n8n — —
n8n-nodes-base — —
unknown — —

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