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n8n Vulnerable to Denial of Service via Malformed Binary Data RequestsGHSA-pr9r-gxgp-9rm8

MEDIUMFix: n8n-io/n8n#16229

GHSA-pr9r-gxgp-9rm8 is a medium-severity (CVSS 4.9) Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in n8n. A fix is available for n8n — see the affected versions and patch details below.

Also known asCVE-2025-49595
Published
Updated
Affected
1 pkg
Patched
1 / 1
Exploits
None indexed
Exploitation data as of Nov 11, 2026 · OSV.dev, NVD, FIRST.org (EPSS)

Exploitation Status

No confirmed exploitation observed yet

  • CISA’s own triage has not observed active exploitation or public proof-of-concept code for this CVE as of its last assessment.

Exploitation and automatability from CISA’s SSVC triage for GHSA-pr9r-gxgp-9rm8.

EPSS Exploitation Probability

via FIRST.org ↗
0.5%probability of exploitation in next 30 days
Lower Risk0.00%
Lower risk than most CVEs41th percentile — riskier than 41% of all scored CVEsHighest risk
0.00%0.32%0.65%0.97%0.3%0.5%May 26Sep 26Nov 26

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.

How urgent is this, really

Where this sits among everything scored

Real-World Exposure

1 pkg affected

How broadly this vulnerability is actually deployed: weekly install volume shows current usage, and reverse-dependency count shows how many other packages break if it stays unpatched.

36other npm packages depend on this — each one inherits the vulnerability until it's patched upstream
n8nnpm
133Kdownloads / week

Description

Summary

Denial of Service vulnerability in /rest/binary-data endpoint when processing empty filesystem URIs (filesystem:// or filesystem-v2://).

Impact

This is a Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability that allows authenticated attackers to cause service unavailability through malformed filesystem URI requests. The vulnerability affects:

  • The /rest/binary-data endpoint
  • n8n.cloud instances (confirmed HTTP/2 524 timeout responses)

Attackers can exploit this by sending GET requests with empty filesystem URIs (filesystem:// or filesystem-v2://) to the /rest/binary-data endpoint, causing resource exhaustion and service disruption.

Patches

The issue has been patched in 1.99.0. All users should upgrade to this version or later.

The fix introduces strict checking of URI patterns.

Patch commit: https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/pull/16229

Affected Packages

1 total 1 fixed
EcosystemPackageVulnerable rangeFix
📦npmn8nall versions1.99.0npm install n8n@1.99.0

Affected Products

1 product · 1 configurations
Application
n8nn8n
< 1.99.0
range

Detection & mitigation playbook

Open-source dependency

  1. Detect

    Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for n8n, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.

  2. Fix

    Update n8n to 1.99.0 or later, then make sure no transitive (indirect) dependency still pins the vulnerable range — O3 confirms GHSA-pr9r-gxgp-9rm8 is resolved across your whole dependency graph.

  3. Workarounds

    Cap what an attacker can consume: apply request size, rate and timeout limits in front of the affected component, and run it with memory and CPU limits so exhaustion degrades one worker rather than the whole service.

Frequently Asked Questions

## Summary Denial of Service vulnerability in `/rest/binary-data` endpoint when processing empty filesystem URIs (`filesystem://` or `filesystem-v2://`). ### Impact This is a Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability that allows authenticated attackers to cause service unavailability through malformed filesystem URI requests. The vulnerability affects: - The `/rest/binary-data` endpoint - n8n.cloud instances (confirmed HTTP/2 524 timeout responses) Attackers can exploit this by sending GET requests with empty filesystem URIs (`filesystem://` or `filesystem-v2://`) to the `/rest/binary-data` end
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