CVE-2026-86079CWE-22path-traversal

CVE-2026-86079

Medium · published September 9, 2026

CVSS v3.1
6.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
41.3
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

n8n is an open source workflow automation platform. Prior to 1.123.76, 2.37.7, and 2.38.2, the Elasticsearch and ElasticSecurity nodes interpolated workflow-controlled index and document identifiers directly into REST request paths. An identifier containing path separators or dot segments could select another index or a cluster administration endpoint under the stored Elasticsearch credential. The affected request construction includes packages/nodes-base/nodes/Elastic/Elasticsearch/GenericFunctions.ts and the missing toPathSegment encoding. This issue is fixed in versions 1.123.76, 2.37.7 and 2.38.2.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
6.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS v4.0
6.3 · CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:N/SA:N
EPSS
0.00491 · 41.3th percentile
Weakness
CWE-22 · Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
Published
2026-09-09T02:19Z
Affected products (3)
ProductVersionsFixed in
n8n/n8n< 1.123.761.123.76
n8n/n8n≥ 2.0.0, < 2.37.72.37.7
n8n/n8n≥ 2.38.0, < 2.38.22.38.2
References (4)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 10 SEP 03:18Z
    EPSS moved — → 0%
    epss
  • 08 SEP 21:26Z
    n8n: Path Injection in Elasticsearch and ElasticSecurity Nodes via Unencoded Identifiers
    cvelistv5