CVE-2026-72773: n8n

High severity, CVSS 7.7. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• n8n n8n: before 2.31.5 (fixed in 2.31.5); version 2.32.0 only

Published 2026-08-11. Last modified 2026-09-01.