CyberRota Analysis
AI-GeneratedA privilege escalation vulnerability in Authentik Security allows attackers with a source-scoped SCIM provisioning token to gain superuser privileges by creating a SCIM group that matches the name of an existing administrator group. This flaw permits unauthorized users to replace the membership of the targeted group without proper validation, potentially locking out legitimate administrators and granting full IdP superuser access to the attacker. Organizations using Authentik Security should prioritize immediate remediation to prevent exploitation of this critical vulnerability.
Public Exploit Signal
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Original NVD Description
A privilege escalation vulnerability in Authentik Security authentik through 2026.5.6 allows an attacker with a source-scoped SCIM provisioning token to gain superuser privileges by provisioning a SCIM group that matches an existing administrator group by name. The SCIM group ingest function adopts any existing group by name and replaces its membership without validating the source scope against the target group. An attacker can grant their provisioning token full IdP superuser access and lock out all existing administrators.