n8n before 2.41.5 and 2.42.2 Credential Theft via Error-Workflow Context Inheritance
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- published
- Whether CISA lists it in its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog: proof that attackers are using it.What do these mean? →
- Not listed in CISA KEV
- Fix
- Fixed in 2.42.2, 2.41.5
- Whether working attack code is public (Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei or GitHub). Public code makes attacks easier.What do these mean? →
- None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
Summary
n8n, a workflow automation platform, is affected by this vulnerability. A project editor could abuse error-workflow settings to act under a colleague's identity and access that colleague's stored credential secrets, exposing sensitive login data.
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n8n before 2.41.5 and 2.42.x before 2.42.2 passes a failed workflow's full execution context, including the identity of the user who started the run, to the configured error workflow. A project editor can set a colleague's workflow settings.errorWorkflow to an error workflow they own, inherit the colleague's identity when that workflow fails, and resolve the colleague's per-user dynamic credential secrets.
Timeline
- CVE published
- First seen by cve.now
Affected versions
- n8n-io n8n
From 2.42.0 · fixed in 2.42.2
- n8n-io n8n
fixed in 2.41.5