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CVE-2026-72537 (GCVE-0-2026-72537)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-11 11:07 – Updated: 2026-08-11 12:40

Title

Authentik Security authentik - Privilege Escalation

Summary

A privilege escalation vulnerability in Authentik Security authentik through 2026.5.6 allows an attacker with a source-scoped SCIM provisioning token to take over any user account including superusers by provisioning a SCIM user that matches an existing local user by username. The SCIM user ingest function adopts pre-existing local accounts by username without validating scope boundaries. An attacker can rewrite or delete any account, including the superuser, using only a limited provisioning credential.

Severity

8.8 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-08-11 12:38 UTC

CWE

CWE-269 - Improper Privilege Management

Assigner

TuranSec redhat root

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version	CPE status
Authentik Security	authentik	Affected: 0 , ≤ 2026.5.6 (custom)	guessed

Credits

Bobur Abdugafforov (Mahadsec)

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FKIE_CVE-2026-72537

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-08-11 12:17 - Updated: 2026-09-03 17:51

Severity

8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Summary

References

	URL	Tags
	309f9ea4-e3e9-4c6c-b79d-e8eb01244f2c	https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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GHSA-F25X-J567-FFXH

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-08-11 12:30 – Updated: 2026-08-11 12:30

Details

Severity

8.8 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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  "id": "GHSA-f25x-j567-ffxh",
  "modified": "2026-08-11T12:30:23Z",
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