GHSA-j4p8-h8mh-rh8q: n8n (CVE-2025-68697)

Self-hosted n8n has Legacy Code node that enables arbitrary file read/write

CVSS 7.1 HighEPSS 0.0027 · 18th percentile

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 26 Dec 2025, 18:26 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

Package	Ecosystem	Affected	Fixed in
n8n	npm	>=1.2.1, <2.0.0	2.0.0

Identifiers

GHSA-j4p8-h8mh-rh8q · CVE-2025-68697

Weakness (CWE)

CWE-269 · CWE-749

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
7.1	High	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N	CNA (GitHub_M)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0027, the 18th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the GitHub Advisory Database, published 26 Dec 2025. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

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