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SCA: security update for n8n (GHSA-2434-3x6q-8r99)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 445193

Description

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

 - n8n before 2.28.1 contains an information disclosure vulnerability where external secrets are incorrectly
 resolved in workflow node expressions outside credentials scope. Authenticated project editors can read
 plaintext external secret values by referencing them in node expressions without requiring explicit
 secrets access permissions. (CVE-2026-59254)

Solution

Update the n8n library and its related packages to version 2.27.4 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-2434-3x6q-8r99

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 445193

Version: Revision 1.1

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 7/23/2026

Updated: 7/23/2026

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.77

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-59254

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.3

Threat Score: 2.3

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/22/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/15/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-59254

cwe: CWE-639