Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jul 10, 2026· Updated Jul 14, 2026
ZITADEL: Unauthorized Token Privilege Escalation in OAuth2 Token Exchange
CVE-2026-56668
Description
ZITADEL is an open source identity management platform. Prior to 4.15.3, ZITADEL's OAuth2 Token Exchange endpoint for urn:ietf:params:oauth:grant-type:token-exchange does not verify that the subject token belongs to the requesting client or that requested scopes remain within the original token's scopes, allowing a low-privilege token to be exchanged for elevated permissions at another application. This issue is fixed in version 4.15.3.
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References
3- github.com/zitadel/zitadel/commit/e2886a61670ca8fd41c9434f87036546e5620bccmitrex_refsource_MISC
- github.com/zitadel/zitadel/releases/tag/v4.15.3mitrex_refsource_MISC
- github.com/zitadel/zitadel/security/advisories/GHSA-vrh8-c9cm-wh8vmitrex_refsource_CONFIRM
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