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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD6.0 Medium

CVE-2026-86078

n8n: Prototype Pollution via Workflow Structure Summary Can Lead to Denial of Service

Description

n8n is an open source workflow automation platform. Prior to 2.37.7 and 2.38.2, the Instance AI workflow summary used node names and connection keys from stored workflows as ordinary object keys. A workflow submitted through the REST API could contain __proto__ or constructor, causing nested writes to reach Object.prototype in the main n8n process and disrupt later requests. The affected function is summarizeWorkflowStructure in packages/@n8n/instance-ai/src/tools/workflows/summarize-workflow.ts. This issue is fixed in versions 2.37.7 and 2.38.2.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

n8n-io n8n

  • < 2.37.7affected
  • >= 2.38.0, < 2.38.2affected

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