CVE-2022-36051: Broken Authorization in ZITADEL Actions

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2022-08-31 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-436

Description

ZITADEL combines the ease of Auth0 and the versatility of Keycloak.**Actions**, introduced in ZITADEL **1.42.0** on the API and **1.56.0** for Console, is a feature, where users with role.`ORG_OWNER` are able to create Javascript Code, which is invoked by the system at certain points during the login. **Actions**, for example, allow creating authorizations (user grants) on newly created users programmatically. Due to a missing authorization check, **Actions** were able to grant authorizations for projects that belong to other organizations inside the same Instance. Granting authorizations via API and Console is not affected by this vulnerability. There is currently no known workaround, users should update.

Affected products

zitadel: from 1.42.0 before 1.87.1; from 2.0.0 before 2.2.0 — fixed in 1.87.1, 2.2.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: zitadel 1.87.1, 2.2.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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