n8n RCE Vulnerability CVE-2025-68613

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV)

Detected March 13th, 2026

Summary

CISA has added CVE-2025-68613, a critical Remote Code Execution vulnerability in n8n's workflow evaluation system, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. The vulnerability affects versions prior to 1.120.4, 1.121.1, and 1.122.0 and allows authenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code.

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What changed

CISA has identified CVE-2025-68613 as a critical Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability within the workflow expression evaluation system of the n8n open-source workflow automation platform. Versions prior to 1.120.4, 1.121.1, and 1.122.0 are affected. An authenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the n8n process, potentially leading to a full compromise of the instance, unauthorized data access, modification of workflows, and system-level operations. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 10.0 (CRITICAL) and is listed in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog.

Organizations utilizing n8n must immediately upgrade to patched versions 1.120.4, 1.121.1, or 1.122.0 to mitigate this risk. If immediate upgrading is not feasible, temporary mitigations include limiting workflow creation and editing permissions to trusted users and deploying n8n in a hardened environment with restricted privileges and network access. Failure to address this vulnerability could result in significant data breaches and system compromise.

What to do next

Upgrade n8n to versions 1.120.4, 1.121.1, or 1.122.0.
If upgrading is not immediately possible, implement temporary mitigations: limit workflow creation/editing permissions and deploy n8n in a hardened environment with restricted privileges and network access.

Source document (simplified)

Required CVE Record Information

CNA: GitHub (maintainer security advisories)

Description

n8n is an open source workflow automation platform. Versions starting with 0.211.0 and prior to 1.120.4, 1.121.1, and 1.122.0 contain a critical Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability in their workflow expression evaluation system. Under certain conditions, expressions supplied by authenticated users during workflow configuration may be evaluated in an execution context that is not sufficiently isolated from the underlying runtime. An authenticated attacker could abuse this behavior to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the n8n process. Successful exploitation may lead to full compromise of the affected instance, including unauthorized access to sensitive data, modification of workflows, and execution of system-level operations. This issue has been fixed in versions 1.120.4, 1.121.1, and 1.122.0. Users are strongly advised to upgrade to a patched version, which introduces additional safeguards to restrict expression evaluation. If upgrading is not immediately possible, administrators should consider the following temporary mitigations: Limit workflow creation and editing permissions to fully trusted users only; and/or deploy n8n in a hardened environment with restricted operating system privileges and network access to reduce the impact of potential exploitation. These workarounds do not fully eliminate the risk and should only be used as short-term measures.

CWE 1 Total

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- CWE-913: CWE-913: Improper Control of Dynamically-Managed Code Resources

CVSS 1 Total

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| Score | Severity | Version | Vector String |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 10.0 | CRITICAL | 3.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H |

Product Status

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Default Status: unknown

affected

affected at >= 0.211.0, < 1.120.4
affected at = 1.121.0

References 4 Total

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CISA-ADP

Updated:

2026-03-12

SSVC and KEV, plus CVSS and CWE if not provided by the CNA.

SSVC 1 Total

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| Exploitation | Automatable | Technical Impact | Version | Date Accessed |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| active | no | total | 2.0.3 | 2026-03-03 |