n8n-io n8n up to 2.41.3/2.42.0 prototype pollution

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A vulnerability was found in n8n-io n8n up to 2.41.3/2.42.0. It has been declared as critical. The impacted element is an unknown function. Executing a manipulation can lead to prototype pollution. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2026-118678. The attack can be launched remotely. No exploit exists. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in n8n-io n8n up to 2.41.3/2.42.0. It has been declared as critical. This vulnerability affects some unknown processing. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a prototype pollution vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-1321. The product receives input from an upstream component that specifies attributes that are to be initialized or updated in an object, but it does not properly control modifications of attributes of the object prototype. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

n8n before 2.41.4 and 2.42.x before 2.42.1 contains a prototype pollution vulnerability that allows low-privileged users to alter built-in object behaviour by saving workflows with specially named connection keys. Attackers can add keys such as __proto__ to workflow connections, which the periodic history compaction task processes, causing logins and writes to fail with server errors.

The advisory is available at github.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2026-118678 since 10/28/2026. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be initiated remotely. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1059 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

Upgrading to version 2.41.4 or 2.42.1 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Vendor

• n8n-io

Name

• n8n

Version

• 2.0
• 2.1
• 2.2
• 2.3
• 2.4
• 2.5
• 2.6
• 2.7
• 2.8
• 2.9
• 2.10
• 2.11
• 2.12
• 2.13
• 2.14
• 2.15
• 2.16
• 2.17
• 2.18
• 2.19
• 2.20
• 2.21
• 2.22
• 2.23
• 2.24
• 2.25
• 2.26
• 2.27
• 2.28
• 2.29
• 2.30
• 2.31
• 2.32
• 2.33
• 2.34
• 2.35
• 2.36
• 2.37
• 2.38
• 2.39
• 2.40
• 2.41
• 2.41.0
• 2.41.1
• 2.41.2
• 2.41.3
• 2.42.0

Website

• Product: https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/

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