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High · 7.7 CVE-2026-86083 EUVD-2026-74273GHSA-6xcw-7xm6-48c6

n8n: Expression Sandbox Escape via Shared Builtin Tampering and Code-Printer Injection Leads to Code Execution

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

Description

n8n is an open source workflow automation platform. Prior to 1.123.76, 2.37.7, and 2.38.2, the legacy expression engine generated source text by calling the mutable global JSON.stringify while printing synthetic string literals and interpolating timezone data. An expression could replace JSON.stringify and cause later generated source to contain executable attacker-controlled code. The affected code-generation paths include packages/@n8n/expression-runtime/src/bridge/isolated-vm-bridge.ts and packages/@n8n/tournament/src/ExpressionBuilder.ts, and the issue does not affect the vm expression engine. This issue is fixed in versions 1.123.76, 2.37.7 and 2.38.2.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
n8n-io n8n >= 2.38.0, < 2.38.2, >= 2.0.0, < 2.37.7, < 1.123.76 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
npm n8n < 1.123.76 1.123.76 GHSA-6xcw-7xm6-48c6
npm n8n >= 2.38.0, < 2.38.2 2.38.2 GHSA-6xcw-7xm6-48c6
npm n8n >= 2.0.0, < 2.37.7 2.37.7 GHSA-6xcw-7xm6-48c6

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