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GHSA-m63j-689w-3j35

n8n is Vulnerable to Credential Theft via Name-Based Resolution and Permission Checker Bypass in Community Edition

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) High CVE-2026-33663

Packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
npm n8n < 1.123.27 1.123.27
npm n8n >= 2.14.0, < 2.14.1 2.14.1
npm n8n >= 2.0.0-rc.0, < 2.13.3 2.13.3

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

## Impact An authenticated user with the `global:member` role could exploit chained authorization flaws in n8n's credential pipeline to steal plaintext secrets from generic HTTP credentials (`httpBasicAuth`, `httpHeaderAuth`, `httpQueryAuth`) belonging to other users on the same instance. The attack abuses a name-based credential resolution path that does not enforce ownership or project scope, combined with a bypass in the credentials permission checker that causes generic HTTP credential types to be skipped during pre-execution validation. Together, these flaws allow a member-role user to resolve another user's credential ID and execute a workflow that decrypts and uses that credential without authorization. Native integration credential types (e.g. `slackApi`, `openAiApi`, `postgres`) are not affected by this issue. This vulnerability affects Community Edition only. Enterprise Edition has additional permission gates on workflow creation and execution that independently block this attack chain. ## Patches The issue has been fixed in n8n versions 1.123.27, 2.13.3, and 2.14.1. Users should upgrade to one of these versions or later to remediate the vulnerability. ## Workarounds If upgrading is not immediately possible, administrators should consider the following temporary mitigations: - Restrict instance access to fully trusted users only. - Audit credentials stored on the instance and rotate any generic HTTP credentials (`httpBasicAuth`, `httpHeaderAuth`, `httpQueryAuth`) that may have been exposed. These workarounds do not fully remediate the risk and should only be used as short-term mitigation measures.

References

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