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SCA: security update for github.com/zitadel/zitadel (GHSA-vrh8-c9cm-wh8v)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 447986

Description

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

 - ZITADEL is an open source identity management platform. Prior to 4.15.3, ZITADEL's OAuth2 Token Exchange
 endpoint for urn:ietf:params:oauth:grant-type:token-exchange does not verify that the subject token
 belongs to the requesting client or that requested scopes remain within the original token's scopes,
 allowing a low-privilege token to be exchanged for elevated permissions at another application. This issue
 is fixed in version 4.15.3. (CVE-2026-56668)

Solution

Update the github.com/zitadel/zitadel library and its related packages to version 4.15.3 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-vrh8-c9cm-wh8v

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 447986

Version: Revision 1.1

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 9/15/2026

Updated: 9/15/2026

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.3

Percentile: 53.71

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.5

Temporal Score: 6.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-56668

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.1

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/14/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/10/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-56668

cwe: CWE-862