CISA warns max-severity n8n bug is being exploited in the wild


The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has confirmed that hackers are exploiting a max-severity remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in workflow automation platform n8n.

CISA urged all federal civilian executive branch (FCEB) agencies to patch CVE-2025-68613 at once because it carries a near-perfect 9.9 vulnerability score. The bug was first disclosed in December, and vendors such as Resecurity said that of n8n’s roughly 230,000 active users, more than 103,000 appeared to be vulnerable.

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Source: U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency


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