CVE-2026-72773

HIGHNVD 7.77.7
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to NVD's CVSS score.

Score 7.7 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: MODERATE) published 2026-08-11. NVD baseline CVSS 7.7; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, NVD CVSS v3

Also known asEUVD-2026-56099 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-cgh8-xfc3-8rm5 (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

7.7EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixRemediate within your standard update timelines (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.6%CVSS: 7.7Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

n8n before 2.31.5 and 2.32.x before 2.32.1 contain a path-confinement bypass in the @n8n/computer-use file-search (search_files) tool. A crafted search pattern can bypass the base-directory confinement check and expand to locations outside the configured directory, causing the tool to return the names and contents of arbitrary local files readable by the daemon's OS user. Any deployment where an actor can influence the tool's search input is affected.

CVSS v3
7.7
EG Score
7.7HIGHmedium confidence
EG Risk
35
EG Risk 35/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity77% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 7.7 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation0.6% × 40%
FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.
EPSS PROB
0.6%
EPSS %ILE
47th
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (7.7): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 7.7 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
7.7 HIGHCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
0.6% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-11-10). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).CISA BOD 26-04: 14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.

Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.

The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

August 11, 2026

Last Modified

October 29, 2026

Advisory Details (2)

Auto-updated Aug 11, 2026
Patch available. Sources: github.
Web page

n8n before 2.32.1 Path Traversal via computer-use search_files | Advisories | VulnCheck

https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/n8n-before-path-traversal-via-computer-use-search-files
GitHub advisoryMentions a patch (unverified)

Path-Confinement Bypass in computer-use search_files Allows Reading Files Outside the Base Directory · Advisory · n8n-io/n8n · GitHub

https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/security/advisories/GHSA-pf2q-pxhf-hgmw

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-72773(1)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Affected Packages

(1 across 1 ecosystem)
npm(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
n8n—
  • 2.32.0 up to 2.32.1: fixed in 2.32.1
  • every version up to 2.31.5: fixed in 2.31.5
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Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 8× in last 7d / 38× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed its CVE.org record (CNA or CISA ADP). An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). "EchelonGraph re-scored" is our own recompute of this CVE's score, not an update from a source, and is not counted in the refreshes above. Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 100 of 243 rows on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. None are among the latest 100 rows. The 143 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-11-12 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 47th percentile
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  3. 2026-11-10 23:47 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  4. 2026-11-10 23:46 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cgh8-xfc3-8rm5 · GitHub severity MODERATE · GitHub CVSS 7.7
  5. 2026-11-10 16:45 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 47th percentile
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  12. 2026-11-03 20:19 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  13. 2026-11-03 20:19 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cgh8-xfc3-8rm5 · GitHub severity MODERATE · GitHub CVSS 7.7
  14. 2026-11-03 16:49 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 47th percentile
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  16. 2026-11-01 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 47th percentile
  17. 2026-10-31 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 47th percentile
  18. 2026-10-30 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 47th percentile
  19. 2026-10-29 21:26 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cgh8-xfc3-8rm5 · GitHub CVSS 7.7
  20. 2026-10-29 20:27 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  21. 2026-10-29 20:27 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cgh8-xfc3-8rm5 · GitHub CVSS 7.7
  22. 2026-10-29 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 46th percentile
  23. 2026-10-28 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 46th percentile
  24. 2026-10-27 21:08 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  25. 2026-10-27 21:08 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cgh8-xfc3-8rm5 · GitHub CVSS 7.7
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  1. 2026-10-27 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 46th percentile
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  4. 2026-10-25 14:06 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  5. 2026-10-24 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 46th percentile
  6. 2026-10-24 15:27 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cgh8-xfc3-8rm5 · GitHub CVSS 7.7
  7. 2026-10-23 19:31 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  8. 2026-10-23 19:31 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cgh8-xfc3-8rm5 · GitHub CVSS 7.7
  9. 2026-10-23 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 46th percentile
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  13. 2026-10-20 09:25 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  14. 2026-10-20 09:25 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cgh8-xfc3-8rm5 · GitHub CVSS 7.7
  15. 2026-10-19 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 45th percentile
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  17. 2026-10-18 03:15 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  18. 2026-10-17 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 45th percentile
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  23. 2026-10-13 08:07 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  24. 2026-10-13 08:06 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cgh8-xfc3-8rm5 · GitHub CVSS 7.7
  25. 2026-10-12 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 45th percentile
  26. 2026-10-12 15:41 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  27. 2026-10-11 19:27 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
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  30. 2026-10-11 13:49 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 45th percentile
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  35. 2026-10-07 05:32 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cgh8-xfc3-8rm5 · GitHub CVSS 7.7
  36. 2026-10-06 17:58 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  37. 2026-10-06 17:58 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cgh8-xfc3-8rm5 · GitHub CVSS 7.7
  38. 2026-10-06 15:18 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 45th percentile
  39. 2026-10-05 18:08 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  40. 2026-10-05 18:08 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cgh8-xfc3-8rm5 · GitHub CVSS 7.7
  41. 2026-10-05 17:43 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 45th percentile
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  43. 2026-10-04 22:46 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cgh8-xfc3-8rm5 · GitHub CVSS 7.7
  44. 2026-10-04 09:15 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cgh8-xfc3-8rm5 · GitHub CVSS 7.7
  45. 2026-10-03 21:26 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  46. 2026-10-03 21:26 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cgh8-xfc3-8rm5 · GitHub CVSS 7.7
  47. 2026-10-03 14:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 45th percentile
  48. 2026-10-02 19:42 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  49. 2026-10-02 19:42 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cgh8-xfc3-8rm5 · GitHub CVSS 7.7
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  51. 2026-10-02 08:44 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cgh8-xfc3-8rm5 · GitHub CVSS 7.7
  52. 2026-10-01 19:50 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 45th percentile
  53. 2026-10-01 09:31 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cgh8-xfc3-8rm5 · GitHub CVSS 7.7
  54. 2026-09-30 22:19 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  55. 2026-09-30 22:19 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cgh8-xfc3-8rm5 · GitHub CVSS 7.7
  56. 2026-09-29 05:16 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  57. 2026-09-29 05:15 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cgh8-xfc3-8rm5 · GitHub CVSS 7.7
  58. 2026-09-28 13:52 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 44th percentile
  59. 2026-09-28 13:18 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cgh8-xfc3-8rm5 · GitHub CVSS 7.7
  60. 2026-09-28 02:20 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  61. 2026-09-28 02:20 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cgh8-xfc3-8rm5 · GitHub CVSS 7.7
  62. 2026-09-27 13:48 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 44th percentile
  63. 2026-09-27 11:01 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  64. 2026-09-27 11:01 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cgh8-xfc3-8rm5 · GitHub CVSS 7.7
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  66. 2026-09-25 03:56 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  67. 2026-09-25 03:56 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cgh8-xfc3-8rm5 · GitHub CVSS 7.7
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  70. 2026-09-23 21:06 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cgh8-xfc3-8rm5 · GitHub CVSS 7.7
  71. 2026-09-23 17:54 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 31st percentile
  72. 2026-09-23 08:12 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cgh8-xfc3-8rm5 · GitHub CVSS 7.7
  73. 2026-09-22 21:14 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  74. 2026-09-22 21:14 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cgh8-xfc3-8rm5 · GitHub CVSS 7.7
  75. 2026-09-22 10:05 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-cgh8-xfc3-8rm5 · GitHub CVSS 7.7

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-72773?
CVE-2026-72773 is a high-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on August 11, 2026. n8n before 2.31.5 and 2.32.x before 2.32.1 contain a path-confinement bypass in the @n8n/computer-use file-search (search_files) tool. A crafted search pattern can bypass the base-directory confinement check and expand to locations outside the configured directory, causing the tool to return the…
When was CVE-2026-72773 made public?
CVE-2026-72773 was made public on July 22, 2026: that is the date its CVE record's CNA, VulnCheck, gives for when the vulnerability was made public. The CVE record itself was published on August 11, 2026. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of October 29, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2026-72773 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-72773 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (47th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-72773?
CVE-2026-72773 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.7 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-72773?
A fix for CVE-2026-72773 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-72773 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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