CVE-2026-42231
Essential information
- Published
- 04/05/2026 19:16
- Modified
- 04/05/2026 19:16
- Author
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- Creator
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- CVSS
- 9.4 CRITICAL (v3) 9.4 CRITICAL (v4.0)
- CISA KEV
- No
- CWE
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- CVSS vector
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CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/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
CVSS metrics
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- Access complexity
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- Authentication
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- Confidentiality impact
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- Integrity impact
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- Availability impact
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- Exploitability
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- Remediation level
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- Report confidence
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- Temporal score
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- Attack vector
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- Attack complexity
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- Privileges required
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- User interaction
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- Scope
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- Confidentiality impact
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- Exploit code maturity
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- Attack vector
- NETWORK
- Attack complexity
- LOW
- Attack requirements
- NONE
- Privileges required
- LOW
- User interaction
- NONE
- Confidentiality (V)
- HIGH
- Confidentiality (S)
- HIGH
- Integrity (V)
- HIGH
- Integrity (S)
- HIGH
- Availability (V)
- HIGH
- Availability (S)
- HIGH
- Exploit maturity
- NOT_DEFINED
Description
n8n is an open source workflow automation platform. Prior to versions 1.123.32, 2.17.4, and 2.18.1, a flaw in the xml2js library used to parse XML request bodies in n8n's webhook handler allowed prototype pollution via a crafted XML payload. An authenticated user with permission to create or modify workflows could exploit this to pollute the JavaScript object prototype and, by chaining the pollution with the Git node's SSH operations, achieve remote code execution on the n8n host. This issue has been patched in versions 1.123.32, 2.17.4, and 2.18.1.
NVD status
- Status
- Received — CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.
- Source
- [email protected]
- NVD
- View on NVD
Affected products (CPE)
| Product | CPE |
|---|---|
| n8n / n8n | cpe:2.3:a:n8n:n8n:<1.123.32:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| n8n / n8n | cpe:2.3:a:n8n:n8n:<2.17.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| n8n / n8n | cpe:2.3:a:n8n:n8n:<2.18.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |