{"id":230570,"date":"2026-02-05T05:23:45","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T11:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/critical-n8n-flaws-disclosed-along-with-public-exploits"},"modified":"2026-02-05T05:23:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T11:23:45","slug":"critical-n8n-flaws-disclosed-along-with-public-exploits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/critical-n8n-flaws-disclosed-along-with-public-exploits","title":{"rendered":"Critical n8n flaws disclosed along with public exploits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/critical-n8n-flaws-disclosed-along-with-public-exploits.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Multiple critical vulnerabilities in the popular n8n open-source workflow automation platform allow escaping the confines of the environment and taking complete control of the host server.<\/p>\n<p>Collectively tracked as CVE-2026\u201325049, the issues can be exploited by any authenticated user who can create or edit workflows on the platform to perform unrestricted remote code execution on the n8n server.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at several cybersecurity companies reported the problems, which stem from n8n\u2019s sanitization mechanism and bypass the patch for <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/n8n-io\/n8n\/security\/advisories\/GHSA-v98v-ff95-f3cp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CVE-2025\u201368613<\/a>, another critical flaw addressed on December 20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Multiple critical vulnerabilities in the popular n8n open-source workflow automation platform allow escaping the confines of the environment and taking complete control of the host server. Collectively tracked as CVE-2026\u201325049, the issues can be exploited by any authenticated user who can create or edit workflows on the platform to perform unrestricted remote code execution on [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}