# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-65016"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-07-22T11:21:38.704Z"
updatedAt: "2026-07-24T21:35:14.139Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:25.636Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-65016"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-65016.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-65016"
title: "n8n before 1.123.64, 2.29.8, and 2.30.1 Privilege Escalation via SSO Instance-Role"
summary: "n8n versions before 1.123.64, 2.29.8, and 2.30.1 contain a privilege escalation vulnerability in Enterprise SSO instance-role provisioning. The provisioning path maps an IdP-asserted role claim to an n8n global role but does not prevent assignment of the global:owner role (unlike the token-exchange identity path, which rejects it). An SSO-authenticated user whose instance-role claim resolves to global:owner is provisioned as instance owner, gaining full administrative control over workflows, credentials, users, and instance configuration. Exploitation requires that Enterprise SSO is configured, instance-role provisioning is enabled via N8N_SSO_SCOPES_PROVISION_INSTANCE_ROLE (disabled by default), and the attacker controls the instance-role claim value issued by the IdP."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"1.123.64"},{"version":"1.123.64","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver"}],"vendor":"n8n-io","product":"n8n","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.30.1"},{"version":"2.30.1","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver"}],"vendor":"n8n-io","product":"n8n","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.29.8"},{"version":"2.29.8","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver"}],"vendor":"n8n-io","product":"n8n","defaultStatus":"unaffected"}]

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