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Medium · 6.0 CVE-2026-86078 EUVD-2026-74278GHSA-679f-58pq-4v2c

n8n: Prototype Pollution via Workflow Structure Summary Can Lead to Denial of Service

Published Sep 8, 2026 · Updated Sep 9, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

n8n is an open source workflow automation platform. Prior to 2.37.7 and 2.38.2, the Instance AI workflow summary used node names and connection keys from stored workflows as ordinary object keys. A workflow submitted through the REST API could contain __proto__ or constructor, causing nested writes to reach Object.prototype in the main n8n process and disrupt later requests. The affected function is summarizeWorkflowStructure in packages/@n8n/instance-ai/src/tools/workflows/summarize-workflow.ts. This issue is fixed in versions 2.37.7 and 2.38.2.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
n8n-io n8n < 2.37.7, >= 2.38.0, < 2.38.2 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
npm n8n >= 2.38.0, < 2.38.2 2.38.2 GHSA-679f-58pq-4v2c
npm n8n < 2.37.7 2.37.7 GHSA-679f-58pq-4v2c

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