goauthentik up to 2026.2.6/2026.5.6/2026.8.1 Email Authenticator improper authentication

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A vulnerability labeled as critical has been found in goauthentik authentik up to 2026.2.6/2026.5.6/2026.8.1. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component Email Authenticator. Such manipulation leads to improper authentication. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2026-94606. The attack can be launched remotely. No exploit exists. The affected component should be upgraded.

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A vulnerability was found in goauthentik authentik up to 2026.2.6/2026.5.6/2026.8.1 and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown part of the component Email Authenticator. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a improper authentication vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-287. When an actor claims to have a given identity, the product does not prove or insufficiently proves that the claim is correct. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

authentik is an open-source identity provider. Prior to 2026.2.7, 2026.5.7, and 2026.8.2, authentik email authenticator enrollment during an authentication or enrollment flow accepts a recipient address supplied in the setup request instead of using the address already established by the flow. An actor who knows a target user's password can substitute an attacker-controlled address, receive the one-time code, and finish enrolling the factor as the target. The target must not have enrolled the email factor already. Successful enrollment gives the actor a session as the target and access to single sign-on applications behind the account. Other authenticator types are not affected. This issue is fixed in versions 2026.2.7, 2026.5.7, and 2026.8.2.

The advisory is available at github.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2026-94606 since 09/21/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.

Upgrading to version 2026.2.7, 2026.5.7 or 2026.8.2 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Vendor

• goauthentik

Name

• authentik

Version

• 2026.2.0
• 2026.2.1
• 2026.2.2
• 2026.2.3
• 2026.2.4
• 2026.2.5
• 2026.2.6
• 2026.5.0
• 2026.5.1
• 2026.5.2
• 2026.5.3
• 2026.5.4
• 2026.5.5
• 2026.5.6
• 2026.8.0
• 2026.8.1

Website

• Product: https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik/

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