🛡️ GHSA-gqcv-rfj6-r29g — n8n (CVE-2026-59253)

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-639 OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Duplicate Advisory: Improper Authorization Allows Authenticated Users to Assign Workflows to Folders in Other Projects

Duplicate Advisory

This advisory has been withdrawn because it is a duplicate of GHSA-2xgm-wc4g-5jvg. This link is maintained to preserve external references.

Original Description

n8n before 2.28.0 contains an improper authorization vulnerability allowing authenticated users to assign workflows to folders in other projects. Attackers can bypass project and folder authorization boundaries by supplying crafted request payloads during workflow creation, causing logical integrity violations in target project folder structures.

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 none, integrity low, availability none.

Weakness class

GHSA-gqcv-rfj6-r29g is classified as CWE-639: Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key. An object is selected by an identifier from the request without checking the caller owns it.

Affected software

GHSA-gqcv-rfj6-r29g is recorded against 1 package.

  • n8n

Timeline and source

Published on 8 July 2026 and last revised on 22 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

github.com (Web)
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
www.vulncheck.com (Web)

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:L/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
CWE CWE-639
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2026-07-08
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-07-22
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
n8n — —

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