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Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

Published

2026-04-16 23:36

Modified

2026-04-17 00:10

Summary

authentik has an insufficient check for account active status during OAuth/SAML authentication

Details

authentik is an open-source Identity Provider that emphasizes flexibility and versatility, with support for a wide set of protocols. In versions 2025.4.4 and earlier, as well as versions 2025.6.0 through 2025.6.3, deactivated users who registered through OAuth/SAML or linked their accounts to OAuth/SAML providers can still retain partial access to the system despite their accounts being deactivated. They end up in a half-authenticated state where they cannot access the API but crucially they can authorize applications if they know the URL of the application. To workaround this issue, developers can add an expression policy to the user login stage on the respective authentication flow with the expression of return request.context["pending_user"].is_active. This modification ensures that the return statement only activates the user login stage when the user is active. This issue is fixed in versions authentik 2025.4.4 and 2025.6.4.

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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Bitnami",
        "name": "authentik",
        "purl": "pkg:bitnami/authentik"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "2025.4.4"
            },
            {
              "introduced": "2025.6.0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "2025.6.4"
            }
          ],
          "type": "SEMVER"
        }
      ],
      "severity": [
        {
          "score": "CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X",
          "type": "CVSS_V4"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2025-53942"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cpes": [
      "cpe:2.3:a:goauthentik:authentik:*:*:*:*:*:go:*:*"
    ],
    "severity": "High"
  },
  "details": "authentik is an open-source Identity Provider that emphasizes flexibility and versatility, with support for a wide set of protocols. In versions 2025.4.4 and earlier, as well as versions 2025.6.0 through 2025.6.3, deactivated users who registered through OAuth/SAML or linked their accounts to OAuth/SAML providers can still retain partial access to the system despite their accounts being deactivated. They end up in a half-authenticated state where they cannot access the API but crucially they can authorize applications if they know the URL of the application. To workaround this issue, developers can add an expression policy to the user login stage on the respective authentication flow with the expression of return request.context[\"pending_user\"].is_active. This modification ensures that the return statement only activates the user login stage when the user is active. This issue is fixed in versions authentik 2025.4.4 and 2025.6.4.",
  "id": "BIT-authentik-2025-53942",
  "modified": "2026-04-17T00:10:47.507Z",
  "published": "2026-04-16T23:36:28.200Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik/commit/7a4c6b9b50f8b837133a7a1fd2cb9b7f18a145cd"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik/commit/c3629d12bfe3d32d3dc8f85c0ee1f087a55dde8f"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik/commit/ce3f9e3763c1778bf3a16b98c95d10f4091436ab"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik/security/advisories/GHSA-9g4j-v8w5-7x42"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-53942"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.6.2",
  "summary": "authentik has an insufficient check for account active status during OAuth/SAML authentication"
}

CVE-2025-53942 (GCVE-0-2025-53942)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-07-23 20:35 – Updated: 2025-07-23 20:49

Title

authentik has an insufficient check for account active status during OAuth/SAML authentication

Summary

authentik is an open-source Identity Provider that emphasizes flexibility and versatility, with support for a wide set of protocols. In versions 2025.4.4 and earlier, as well as versions 2025.6.0-rc1 through 2025.6.3, deactivated users who registered through OAuth/SAML or linked their accounts to OAuth/SAML providers can still retain partial access to the system despite their accounts being deactivated. They end up in a half-authenticated state where they cannot access the API but crucially they can authorize applications if they know the URL of the application. To workaround this issue, developers can add an expression policy to the user login stage on the respective authentication flow with the expression of return request.context["pending_user"].is_active. This modification ensures that the return statement only activates the user login stage when the user is active. This issue is fixed in versions authentik 2025.4.4 and 2025.6.4.

Severity ?

7.1 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H

CWE

CWE-269 - Improper Privilege Management

Assigner

GitHub_M

References

URL

Tags

	https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik/security…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
	https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik/commit/7…	x_refsource_MISC
	https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik/commit/c…	x_refsource_MISC
	https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik/commit/c…	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	goauthentik	authentik	Affected: <= 2025.4.3, < 2025.4.4 Affected: >= 2025.6.0-rc1, < 2025.6.4

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Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

CVE-2025-53942 (GCVE-0-2025-53942)

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