CVE-2026-56668CWE-862

ZITADEL: Unauthorized Token Privilege Escalation in OAuth2 Token Exchange

High · published July 10, 2026

CVSS v3.1
8.1
EPSS
0%
Percentile
34.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

ZITADEL is an open source identity management platform. Prior to 4.15.3, ZITADEL's OAuth2 Token Exchange endpoint for urn:ietf:params:oauth:grant-type:token-exchange does not verify that the subject token belongs to the requesting client or that requested scopes remain within the original token's scopes, allowing a low-privilege token to be exchanged for elevated permissions at another application. This issue is fixed in version 4.15.3.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
8.1 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00413 · 34.4th percentile
Weakness
CWE-862 · Missing Authorization
Published
2026-07-10T17:46Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 10 JUL 17:46Z
    ZITADEL: Unauthorized Token Privilege Escalation in OAuth2 Token Exchange
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