CVE-2026-55670: zitadel Improper Access Control
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2026-55670 is a low (CVSS 2.3) Improper Access Control vulnerability in zitadel. EPSS estimates a 0.36% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 28.7% of scored vulnerabilities.
Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 1 · Related 1Timeline
- 10-07-2026PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 10-07-2026Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
ZITADEL is an open source identity management platform. Prior to 4.15.1, ZITADEL's event store validation can retain the original resource owner for a deleted user identifier, causing a later user recreated with the same identifier in another organization to be provisioned under the original organization and exposed to that organization's administrator. This issue is fixed in version 4.15.2.
CVSS metrics
4 scores · 4 sources · 1 version- OSV · GoEcosystem advisory · calculated2.3LowCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- OSV · ChainguardEcosystem advisory · calculated2.3LowCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- NVDNIST2.3LowCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
EPSS trend
Probability
0.36%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
29%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
0.00 pp
From 0.36% on 21-09-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root cause- CWE-284Improper Access ControlThe product does not restrict or incorrectly restricts access to a resource from an unauthorized actor.
- CWE-639Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled KeyThe system's authorization functionality does not prevent one user from gaining access to another user's data or record by modifying the key value identifying the data.
Affected systems
Chainguard1 product
- zitadel-3All versions (No fix recorded)
Github.com/zitadel1 product
- zitadel< 1.80.0-v2.20.0.20260615092437-6082e59d47c1
Zitadel1 product
- zitadel< 4.15.2
3 vendors · 3 products
References
8 links- github.com/zitadel/zitadelPACKAGE