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Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

Published

2026-04-16 23:36

Modified

2026-09-08 08:34

Summary

authentik has Insufficient Authorization for several API endpoints

Details

authentik is an open-source Identity Provider. Several API endpoints can be accessed by users without correct authentication/authorization. The main API endpoints affected by this are /api/v3/crypto/certificatekeypairs//view_certificate/, /api/v3/crypto/certificatekeypairs//view_private_key/, and /api/v3/.../used_by/. Note that all of the affected API endpoints require the knowledge of the ID of an object, which especially for certificates is not accessible to an unprivileged user. Additionally the IDs for most objects are UUIDv4, meaning they are not easily guessable/enumerable. authentik 2024.4.4, 2024.6.4 and 2024.8.0 fix this issue.

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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Bitnami",
        "name": "authentik",
        "purl": "pkg:bitnami/authentik"
      },
      "ranges": [
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          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "2024.4.4"
            },
            {
              "introduced": "2024.6.0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "2024.6.4"
            }
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          "type": "SEMVER"
        }
      ],
      "severity": [
        {
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N",
          "type": "CVSS_V3"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2024-42490"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cpes": [
      "cpe:2.3:a:goauthentik:authentik:*:*:*:*:*:go:*:*"
    ],
    "severity": "High"
  },
  "details": "authentik is an open-source Identity Provider. Several API endpoints can be accessed by users without correct authentication/authorization. The main API endpoints affected by this are /api/v3/crypto/certificatekeypairs/\u003cuuid\u003e/view_certificate/, /api/v3/crypto/certificatekeypairs/\u003cuuid\u003e/view_private_key/, and /api/v3/.../used_by/. Note that all of the affected API endpoints require the knowledge of the ID of an object, which especially for certificates is not accessible to an unprivileged user. Additionally the IDs for most objects are UUIDv4, meaning they are not easily guessable/enumerable. authentik 2024.4.4, 2024.6.4 and 2024.8.0 fix this issue.",
  "id": "BIT-authentik-2024-42490",
  "modified": "2026-09-08T08:34:36.952Z",
  "published": "2026-04-16T23:36:16.647Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "FIX",
      "url": "https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik/commit/19318d4c00bb02c4ec3c4f8f15ac2e1dbe8d846c"
    },
    {
      "type": "FIX",
      "url": "https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik/commit/359b343f51524342a5ca03828e7c975a1d654b11"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik/security/advisories/GHSA-qxqc-27pr-wgc8"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-42490"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.6.2",
  "summary": "authentik has Insufficient Authorization for several API endpoints"
}

CVE-2024-42490 (GCVE-0-2024-42490)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-08-22 15:34 – Updated: 2024-08-22 16:04

Title

authentik has Insufficient Authorization for several API endpoints

Summary

authentik is an open-source Identity Provider. Several API endpoints can be accessed by users without correct authentication/authorization. The main API endpoints affected by this are /api/v3/crypto/certificatekeypairs/<uuid>/view_certificate/, /api/v3/crypto/certificatekeypairs/<uuid>/view_private_key/, and /api/v3/.../used_by/. Note that all of the affected API endpoints require the knowledge of the ID of an object, which especially for certificates is not accessible to an unprivileged user. Additionally the IDs for most objects are UUIDv4, meaning they are not easily guessable/enumerable. authentik 2024.4.4, 2024.6.4 and 2024.8.0 fix this issue.

Severity

7.5 (High)


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

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-08-22 16:04 UTC

CWE

CWE-285 - Improper Authorization

Assigner

GitHub_M mitre root

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik/security…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik/commit/1…	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik/commit/3…	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
goauthentik	authentik	Affected: < 2024.4.4 Affected: >= 2024.6.0-rc1, < 2024.6.4

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