Vulnerability · Published Mar 20, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

CVE-2026-33132ZITADEL is missing enforcement of organization scopes

Medium 5.3

In plain English

A medium-severity incorrect authorization in zitadel from zitadel. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.3% (higher than 25% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)5.3Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)0.3%top 74.7% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

ZITADEL is an open source identity management platform. Versions prior to 3.4.9 and 4.0.0 through 4.12.2 allowed users to bypass organization enforcement during authentication. Zitadel allows applications to enforce an organzation context during authentication using scopes (urn:zitadel:iam:org:id:{id} and urn:zitadel:iam:org:domain:primary:{domainname}). If enforced, a user needs to be part of the required organization to sign in. While this was properly enforced for OAuth2/OIDC authorization requests in login V1, corresponding controls were missing for device authorization requests and all login V2 and OIDC API V2 endpoints. This allowed users to bypass the restriction and sign in with users from other organizations. Note that this enforcement allows for an additional check during authentication and applications relying on authorizations / roles assignments are not affected by this bypass. This issue has been patched in versions 3.4.9 and 4.12.3.

Affected packages & fixed versions

Ecosystem	Package	Fixed in	Advisory
Go	github.com/zitadel/zitadel	4.12.3	GHSA-g2pf-ww5m-2r9m
Go	github.com/zitadel/zitadel	3.4.9	GHSA-g2pf-ww5m-2r9m
Go	github.com/zitadel/zitadel	1.80.0-v2.20.0.20260317120401-d90285929ca0	GHSA-g2pf-ww5m-2r9m
Go	github.com/zitadel/zitadel	1.80.0-v2.20.0.20260317120401-d90285929ca0	GO-2026-4751

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
zitadel	zitadel	>= 4.0.0-rc.1, < 4.12.3>= 3.0.0-rc.1, < 3.4.9< 1.80.0-v2.20.0.20260317120401-d90285929ca0

Weakness: CWE-863 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

References

https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel/security/advisories/GHSA-g2pf-ww5m-2r9m x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel/commit/d90285929ca019fa817f31551fd0883429dda2a8 x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel/releases/tag/v3.4.9 x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel/releases/tag/v4.12.3 x_refsource_MISC