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CVE-2026-58165: OpenZiti - Privilege Escalation to Admin via Unauthorized Enrollment Creation

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-06-30 · updated 2026-10-25
• Weakness: CWE-862

Description

OpenZiti through 2.0.0, fixed in commit 3027fdf, contains a privilege escalation vulnerability that allows authenticated non-admin identities with fine-grained enrollment management permissions to create enrollments for any identity, including the default administrator, because the ApplyCreate function in controller/model/enrollment_manager.go verifies only that the target identity exists without performing authorization checks binding the caller to the target identity. Attackers can redeem the resulting one-time token through the unauthenticated client API enrollment endpoint to obtain a client certificate authenticating as the targeted admin identity, yielding full administrative control of the controller and the zero-trust overlay it manages.

Affected products

• openziti ziti: through 2.0.0

References

• https://github.com/openziti/ziti/commit/3027fdffd3e57884487b7c46e5e669cfbc8becdf
• https://github.com/openziti/ziti/issues/4010
• https://github.com/openziti/ziti/pull/4013
• https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/openziti-privilege-escalation-to-admin-via-unauthorized-enrollment-creation

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