CVE-2026-27840
February 26, 2026
ZITADEL is an open source identity management platform. Starting in version 2.31.0 and prior to versions 3.4.7 and 4.11.0, opaque OIDC access tokens in the v2 format truncated to 80 characters are still considered valid. Zitadel uses a symmetric AES encryption for opaque tokens. The cleartext payload is a concatenation of a couple of identifiers, such as a token ID and user ID. Internally Zitadel has 2 different versions of token payloads. v1 tokens are no longer created, but are still verified as to not invalidate existing session after upgrade. The cleartext payload has a format of "<token_id>:<user_id>". v2 tokens distinguished further where the "token_id" is of the format "v2_<oidc_session_id>-at_<access_token_id>". V1 token authZ/N session data is retrieved from the database using the (simple) "token_id" value and "user_id" value. The "user_id" (called "subject" in some parts of our code) was used as being the trusted user ID. V2 token authZ/N session data is retrieved from the database using the "oidc_session_id" and "access_token_id" and in this case the "user_id" from the token is ignored and taken from the session data in the database. By truncating the token to 80 chars, the user_id is now missing from the cleartext of the v2 token. The back-end still accepts this for above reasons. This issue is not considered exploitable, but may look awkward when reproduced. The patch in versions 4.11.0 and 3.4.7 resolves the issue by verifying the "user_id" from the token against the session data from the database. No known workarounds are available.
Affected Packages
https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel.git (GITHUB):
Affected version(s) >=v3.0.0 <v3.4.7Fix Suggestion:
Update to version v3.4.7https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel.git (GITHUB):
Affected version(s) >=v4.0.0 <v4.11.0Fix Suggestion:
Update to version v4.11.0github.com/zitadel/zitadel (GO):
Affected version(s) >=v3.0.0 <v3.4.7Fix Suggestion:
Update to version v3.4.7github.com/zitadel/zitadel (GO):
Affected version(s) >=v4.0.0 <v4.11.0Fix Suggestion:
Update to version v4.11.0Related ResourcesĀ (7)
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Contact UsCVSS v4
Base Score:
5.3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Attack Requirements
NONE
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
PASSIVE
Vulnerable System Confidentiality
NONE
Vulnerable System Integrity
LOW
Vulnerable System Availability
NONE
Subsequent System Confidentiality
NONE
Subsequent System Integrity
NONE
Subsequent System Availability
NONE
CVSS v3
Base Score:
4.3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
LOW
Availability
NONE
Weakness Type (CWE)
Authentication Bypass by Assumed-Immutable Data
EPSS
Base Score:
0.02