authentik: Denial of Service via Document Type Declarations in SAML Messages
21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 7.5epss 0.6%
exploitation probability
0.6%top 51% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
authentik is an open-source identity provider. Prior to 2026.2.7, 2026.5.7, and 2026.8.2, an unauthenticated attacker can submit a malformed SAML message to an authentik deployment using SAML in either the identity-provider or SAML source role. The message can stop the worker handling /application/saml/* or /source/saml/*, causing the requests assigned to that worker to fail. Worker process termination and automatic restart do not destroy database-backed sessions, but continued malicious messages can cause a sustained share of legitimate traffic to fail. Other protocol implementations are not affected. This issue is fixed in versions 2026.2.7, 2026.5.7, and 2026.8.2.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products
goauthentik · authentikReferences
https://docs.goauthentik.io/releases/2026.2#fixed-in-202627https://docs.goauthentik.io/releases/2026.5#fixed-in-202657https://docs.goauthentik.io/releases/2026.8#fixed-in-202682https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik/commit/03d19d63b8d8dd7bc3de7cf6e57c6df341a9fc86https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik/commit/4cf2f803b1c2ef38c224eead375fd057a10ee8achttps://github.com/goauthentik/authentik/commit/732adad26bb97361b6bf25ef138df5c16471ba1fhttps://github.com/goauthentik/authentik/commit/a029f5372295bfeb1e334855f78601681cdc9a2dhttps://github.com/goauthentik/authentik/pull/25959https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik/pull/25964https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik/pull/25969https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik/pull/25974https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik/releases/tag/version/2026.2.7