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CVE-2026-86081

n8n: Regular Expression Denial of Service in the Default Blocked-File-Pattern Match via a Git Node Clone Path PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

n8n is an open source workflow automation platform. Prior to 1.123.76, 2.37.7, and 2.38.2, the Git node clone operation matched an attacker-controlled destination path against the default N8N_BLOCK_FILE_PATTERNS regular expression. The pattern ^(./).git(/.)$ allowed catastrophic backtracking and ran synchronously in the main n8n process. An authenticated workflow editor could therefore freeze the instance with one workflow execution; the affected default is declared in packages/@n8n/config/src/configs/security.config.ts. This issue is fixed in versions 1.123.76, 2.37.7 and 2.38.2.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
n8n-io / n8naffected >= 2.38.0, < 2.38.2; affected >= 2.0.0, < 2.37.7; affected < 1.123.76

CWE

CWE-1333

References

ADP enrichment

CISA-ADP

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