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CVE-2026-56668 (GCVE-0-2026-56668)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-10 17:46 – Updated: 2026-07-14 13:40
VLAI
Title
ZITADEL: Unauthorized Token Privilege Escalation in OAuth2 Token Exchange
Summary
ZITADEL is an open source identity management platform. Prior to 4.15.3, ZITADEL's OAuth2 Token Exchange endpoint for urn:ietf:params:oauth:grant-type:token-exchange does not verify that the subject token belongs to the requesting client or that requested scopes remain within the original token's scopes, allowing a low-privilege token to be exchanged for elevated permissions at another application. This issue is fixed in version 4.15.3.
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-07-14 13:39 UTC
CWE
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
zitadel zitadel Affected: < 4.15.3
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