# CVE-2026-86085: n8n: Cross-Tenant Project-Member PII Disclosure via Missing Per-Project Scope Check on Role Assignment Endpoints

- Also known as: GHSA-CQR2-H44G-V75V
- Severity: CVSS 5.1 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 2.37.7, 2.38.2
- Published: 2026-09-08 · Updated: 2026-09-14

## Affected

- n8n-io n8n: fixed in 2.37.7; from 2.38.0, fixed in 2.38.2
- n8n (npm): from 2.38.0, fixed in 2.38.2
- n8n (npm): fixed in 2.37.7

## Description

n8n is an open source workflow automation platform. Prior to 2.37.7 and 2.38.2, the /rest/roles/:slug/assignments and /rest/roles/:slug/assignments/:projectId/members endpoints checked only whether the caller could manage the role type. A caller with role:manageProject could name a project the caller could not list and obtain member names and email addresses. The affected controller is packages/cli/src/controllers/role.controller.ts, which omitted the project:list scope check. This issue is fixed in versions 2.37.7 and 2.38.2.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n8n-io n8n, n8n, upgrade to a fixed version (2.37.7, 2.38.2) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/security/advisories/GHSA-cqr2-h44g-v75v
- https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/releases/tag/n8n@2.37.7
- https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/releases/tag/n8n@2.38.2

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