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n8n is an open source workflow automation platform with a history of critical and high-severity vulnerabilities, including remote code execution and shell sandbox enforcement failures, indicating a need for improved security practices and patch management.

PROFILE
Categoryworkflow automation platformWhat they don8n is an open source workflow automation platform that allows users to create and manage automated workflows through expression evaluation and dynamically managed code resources.
SECURITY POSTURE

The company has a poor security posture, evidenced by multiple critical and high-severity vulnerabilities related to remote code execution and shell sandbox enforcement failures in its workflow automation engine.

Notable failures
  • CVE-2025-68613 RCE via expression evaluation
  • CVE-2026-65590 shell sandbox enforcement failure
  • CVE-2026-27577 unspecified critical vulnerability
Patterns: repeated unpatched edge-device RCEs; failure to enforce shell sandbox restrictions
FAILURE HISTORY · 6
DATEEVENTSEVSUMMARY
2026-03-11 CVE-2025-68613 high n8n workflow expression evaluation allows remote code execution via dynamically managed code resources.
2026-03-11 CVE-2025-68613 high n8n workflow expression evaluation allows remote code execution via dynamically managed code resources.
2026-07-22 CVE-2026-65590 critical CVE-2026-65590: n8n before 2.29.8 and 2.30.x before 2.30.1 does not enforce shell sandbox restri
2026-07-22 CVE-2026-65590 critical CVE-2026-65590: n8n before 2.29.8 and 2.30.x before 2.30.1 does not enforce shell sandbox restri
2026-02-25 CVE-2026-27577 critical CVE-2026-27577: n8n is an open source workflow automation platform. Prior to versions 2.10.1, 2.
2026-02-25 CVE-2026-27577 critical CVE-2026-27577: n8n is an open source workflow automation platform. Prior to versions 2.10.1, 2.
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DOSSIER · dex-RAG synthesis · grounded in our own collection + trusted sourcesbuilt 2026-08-27 04:06:43.477615+00:00