GitHub Advisoryadvisory · npm

GHSA-w867-jm58-p9pv n8n: Authenticated Users Can Exhaust Temporary Disk Storage via Data-Table File Uploads

MEDIUM Published 2026-07-22 Modified 2026-07-22 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2026-58661
Ecosystem
npm
Packages
n8n
Severity
Moderate
CVSS vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Weaknesses
CWE-770
Reviewed
2026-07-22

Affected packages

• npm n8n: >= 2.0.0, < 2.28.0 → fixed in 2.28.0 • npm n8n: < 1.123.58 → fixed in 1.123.58

Description

Impact An authenticated user can repeatedly upload files to the data-table upload endpoint, bypassing the per-request quota check, which does not account for files already written to the shared temporary directory. This causes temporary files to accumulate on disk until the periodic cleanup runs, potentially exhausting available disk space on the host. Patches Users should upgrade to the patched version once available to remediate the vulnerability. Workarounds If upgrading is not immediately possible, administrators should consider the following temporary mitigations: • Restrict n8n instance access to fully trusted users only. • Set `uploadMaxFileSize` to a low value to limit individual upload size. • Monitor and alert on disk usage in the n8n temporary upload directory. These workarounds do not fully remediate the risk and should only be used as short-term mitigation measures.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2026-58661 n8n before 2.28.0 (and before 1.123.58 on the 1.x branch) contains a disk space exhaustion vulnerability in the data-table file upload… vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling weakness

References