# CVE-2022-36051: Broken Authorization in ZITADEL Actions

- Also known as: GHSA-C8FJ-4PM8-MP2C
- Severity: CVSS 8.7 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 2.2.0, 1.87.1
- Published: 2022-08-31 · Updated: 2025-04-23

## Affected

- zitadel: from 2.0.0, fixed in 2.2.0; from 1.42.0, fixed in 1.87.1
- github.com/zitadel/zitadel (Go): from 2.0.0, fixed in 2.2.0
- github.com/zitadel/zitadel (Go): from 1.42.0, fixed in 1.87.1

## Description

ZITADEL combines the ease of Auth0 and the versatility of Keycloak.**Actions**, introduced in ZITADEL **1.42.0** on the API and **1.56.0** for Console, is a feature, where users with role.`ORG_OWNER` are able to create Javascript Code, which is invoked by the system at certain points during the login. **Actions**, for example, allow creating authorizations (user grants) on newly created users programmatically. Due to a missing authorization check, **Actions** were able to grant authorizations for projects that belong to other organizations inside the same Instance. Granting authorizations via API and Console is not affected by this vulnerability. There is currently no known workaround, users should update.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on zitadel, github.com/zitadel/zitadel, upgrade to a fixed version (2.2.0, 1.87.1) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel/security/advisories/GHSA-c8fj-4pm8-mp2c
- https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel/releases/tag/v1.87.1
- https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel/releases/tag/v2.2.0

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