CVE-2026-33722 Details
n8n is an open source workflow automation platform. Prior to versions 2.6.4 and 1.123.23, an authenticated user without permission to list external secrets could reference a secret by the external name in a credential and retrieve its plaintext value when saving the credential. This bypassed the `externalSecret:list` permission check and allowed access to secrets stored in connected vaults without admin or owner privileges. This issue requires the instance to have an external secrets vault configured. The attacker must know or be able to guess the name of a target secret. The issue has been fixed in n8n versions 1.123.23 and 2.6.4. Users should upgrade to one of these versions or later to remediate the vulnerability. If upgrading is not immediately possible, administrators should consider the following temporary mitigations: Restrict n8n access to fully trusted users only, and/or disable external secrets integration until the patch can be applied. These workarounds do not fully remediate the risk and should only be used as short-term mitigation measures.
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2026-33722
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System): EPSS predicts the likelihood that a vulnerability will be exploited in the wild. A higher percentage means a greater chance of an exploit occurring. The EPSS model produces a probability score between 0 and 1 (0 and 100%).
0.01 Probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days (2nd percentile)
CVSS score for CVE-2026-33722
CVSS (Common Vulnerability Scoring System): An open framework owned and managed by FIRST.Org, Inc. that assigns a numerical score from 0 to 10 to software vulnerabilities to indicate their severity.
5.3 Medium
Products affected by CVE-2026-33722
N8n 1.123.11
N8n 1.123.12
N8n 1.123.16
N8n 1.123.4
N8n 1.123.5
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Low
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CVE-2026-33722 Global Footprint

Top 10 Identified Countries

Country Observations Percentage
US 3,635 31.15%
DE 1,944 16.66%
FR 528 4.53%
SG 508 4.35%
CN 420 3.60%
VN 414 3.55%
GB 403 3.45%
IN 368 3.15%
RU 335 2.87%
NL 284 2.43%

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CVE-2026-33722 Industry Footprint

Top 10 Identified Industries

*Service provider organizations (typically Technology and Telecommunications) are disproportionally represented in the results given their upstream ownership of end-user infrastructure. See our FAQs.

Industry* Observations Percentage
Technology 8,456 91.01%
Telecommunications 702 7.56%
Education 47 0.51%
Retail 25 0.27%
Business Services 10 0.11%
Media/Entertainment 8 0.09%
Government/Politics 8 0.09%
Engineering 6 0.06%
Consumer Goods 6 0.06%
Healthcare/Wellness 4 0.04%

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