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SCA: security update for n8n (GHSA-6xcw-7xm6-48c6)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 447937

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - n8n is an open source workflow automation platform. Prior to 1.123.76, 2.37.7, and 2.38.2, the legacy
 expression engine generated source text by calling the mutable global JSON.stringify while printing
 synthetic string literals and interpolating timezone data. An expression could replace JSON.stringify and
 cause later generated source to contain executable attacker-controlled code. The affected code-generation
 paths include packages/@n8n/expression-runtime/src/bridge/isolated-vm-bridge.ts and
 packages/@n8n/tournament/src/ExpressionBuilder.ts, and the issue does not affect the vm expression engine.
 This issue is fixed in versions 1.123.76, 2.37.7 and 2.38.2. (CVE-2026-86083)

Solution

Update the n8n library and its related packages to version 1.123.76 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6xcw-7xm6-48c6

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 447937

Version: Revision 1.1

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 9/11/2026

Updated: 9/11/2026

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.6

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-86083

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 8.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.7

Threat Score: 5.2

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/10/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/8/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-86083

cwe: CWE-94