n8n: Improper Authorization Allows Authenticated Users to Assign Workflows to Folders in Other…
n8n
- Severity
- Medium, CVSS 5.0
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N
- Record
- CVE-2026-59253
- Affects
- n8n
- Known exploited
- Not listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
- Published
- Record first published by the source
- July 8, 2026
- Source last modified
- July 22, 2026
Description
n8n before 2.28.0 contains an improper authorization vulnerability allowing authenticated users to assign workflows to folders in other projects. Attackers can bypass project and folder authorization boundaries by supplying crafted request payloads during workflow creation, causing logical integrity violations in target project folder structures.
Description quoted from the NVD record.