highVulnerability

CVE-2026-86075

## Impact The OAuth Dynamic Client Registration endpoints validated field sizes only for `redirect_uris`, leaving `client_name` and `grant_types` bounded by presence checks alone. An unauthenticated remote caller could submit arbitrarily large values in either field and have them persisted to the database. Repeated registration therefore grew persistent storage without limit and without any account on the instance. The patch caps `client_name` at its column length and limits `grant_types` to the grant types the server actually implements, with the array capped at that count. ## Patches The issue has been fixed in n8n versions 2.37.7 and 2.38.2. Users should upgrade to one of these versions or later to remediate the vulnerability. ## Workarounds If upgrading is not immediately possible, administrators should consider the following temporary mitigations: - Restrict network access to the n8n instance so that only trusted clients can reach it. - Place the instance behind a reverse proxy configured to enforce strict request body size limits below the default 16 MiB. - Monitor database size for unexpected growth and audit the `oauth_clients` table for anomalous entries. These workarounds do not fully remediate the risk and should only be used as short-term mitigation measures.

Properties

ghsa_id
GHSA-hh89-3r9w-qj3j
severity
high
summary
n8n: Unauthenticated Persistent Storage Exhaustion via OAuth Dynamic Client Registration Endpoint
epss_score
0.00291
cve_id
CVE-2026-86075
is_ghsa_only
false
ghsa_published
2026-09-10T15:11:31Z
source_url
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hh89-3r9w-qj3j
epss_percentile
0.21521
ghsa_updated
2026-09-10T15:11:31Z

Related Entities (5)

ENRICHED_BY (1)

[Source]FIRST EPSS

VULNERABLE_TO (1)

[Software]npm/n8n

AFFECTS (1)

[Software]npm/n8n

HAS_WEAKNESS (1)

[Weakness]Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

REPORTED_BY (1)

[Source]GitHub Advisory Database

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