CVE-2024-42490authentik has Insufficient Authorization for several API endpoints
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 0.48%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 58% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
authentik is an open-source Identity Provider. Several API endpoints can be accessed by users without correct authentication/authorization. The main API endpoints affected by this are /api/v3/crypto/certificatekeypairs/<uuid>/view_certificate/, /api/v3/crypto/certificatekeypairs/<uuid>/view_private_key/, and /api/v3/.../used_by/. Note that all of the affected API endpoints require the knowledge of the ID of an object, which especially for certificates is not accessible to an unprivileged user. Additionally the IDs for most objects are UUIDv4, meaning they are not easily guessable/enumerable. authentik 2024.4.4, 2024.6.4 and 2024.8.0 fix this issue.
Timeline
ID reserved
By GitHub_M
- 20 days later
· 20 days later
Published
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub_MCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.48% · top 58% of all CVEs (14 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
- affected < 2024.4.4
- affected >= 2024.6.0-rc1, < 2024.6.4
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Gogoauthentik.ioGHSA-qxqc-27pr-wgc8 (opens in a new tab)
References
References3
- https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik/security/advisories/GHSA-qxqc-27pr-wgc8 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik/commit/19318d4c00bb02c4ec3c4f8f15ac2e1dbe8d846c (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik/commit/359b343f51524342a5ca03828e7c975a1d654b11 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2024-2642 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-qxqc-27pr-wgc8 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2024-42490)Record last updated .