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Medium · 4.8 CVE-2026-56666 EUVD-2026-42966GHSA-992q-9gwp-7r79GO-2026-6470

ZITADEL: Auto-linking by email: IdP-side email verification is not checked

Published Jul 10, 2026 · Updated Jul 13, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

ZITADEL is an open source identity management platform. Prior to 4.15.3, ZITADEL's external identity provider handler checks that the local user's email is verified but does not verify that the external IdP confirmed ownership of the same email before auto-linking by email, allowing a permissive provider account with a victim email address to be linked to the victim's local account. This issue is fixed in version 4.15.3.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
zitadel zitadel < 4.15.3 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES for SAP 16.0 govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20260916T180043-160000.1.1 SUSE-SU-2026:23863-1, SUSE-SU-2026:23855-1
SLES 16.0 govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20260916T180043-160000.1.1 SUSE-SU-2026:23863-1, SUSE-SU-2026:23855-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Leap 16.0 govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20260916T180043-160000.1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:21897-1

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/zitadel/zitadel < 4.15.3 4.15.3 GHSA-992q-9gwp-7r79
Go github.com/zitadel/zitadel all versions — GO-2026-6470

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