HIGH 8.8 NVD

CVE-2026-72537

A privilege escalation vulnerability in Authentik Security authentik through 2026.5.6 allows an attacker with a source-scoped SCIM provisioning token to take ov

A privilege escalation vulnerability in Authentik Security authentik through 2026.5.6 allows an attacker with a source-scoped SCIM provisioning token to take over any user account including superusers by provisioning a SCIM user that matches an existing local user by username. The SCIM user ingest function adopts pre-existing local accounts by username without validating scope boundaries. An attacker can rewrite or delete any account, including the superuser, using only a limited provisioning credential.

References

https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik

Published: 2026-08-11 · Source: NVD · Feed updated: 2026-08-11

This high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 8.8 was published on 2026-08-11 via NVD.

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